The landfill will not be read. There is so much to think about and say to that (thinking about the literal landfill as text and also about text as landfill). But what I'm instantly reminded of is this article by Gisela Heffes in which she establishes some interesting contrasts between how trash is dealt with (both rhetorically and materially) in Latin America vs the U.S.: https://humanitiesfutures.org/papers/trash-matters-residual-culture-latin-america/ Única mirando al mar (the Costa Rican novel she discusses) is a wonderful book--were you part of the group in Pati's class that did their documentary on the landfill in Monteverde? Regardless, it's about people who live, and make their living, in the San Jose landfill--who (I guess we could say) read it, and help (re)write it, as part of their survival.
The landfill will not be read. There is so much to think about and say to that (thinking about the literal landfill as text and also about text as landfill). But what I'm instantly reminded of is this article by Gisela Heffes in which she establishes some interesting contrasts between how trash is dealt with (both rhetorically and materially) in Latin America vs the U.S.: https://humanitiesfutures.org/papers/trash-matters-residual-culture-latin-america/ Única mirando al mar (the Costa Rican novel she discusses) is a wonderful book--were you part of the group in Pati's class that did their documentary on the landfill in Monteverde? Regardless, it's about people who live, and make their living, in the San Jose landfill--who (I guess we could say) read it, and help (re)write it, as part of their survival.