BIOPOLITICS AND FOOD SHORTAGES IN BANANA PLANTATIONS: THE CASE OF MAMITA YUNAI,CARLOS LUIS FALLAS, BANANOS, EMILIO QUINTANA, AND PRISIÓN VERDE BY RAMÓN AMAYA
There are different modalities of food shortage. One of them derives from the conditions of labor explotations of workers in banana plantations. This situation is represented in Mamita Yunai, Bananos, and Prisión verde. The control over the bodies of the workers—following Foucault’s concept of biopo...
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| Format: | article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication Date: | 2020 |
| Country: | Costa Rica |
| Institution: | Universidad de Costa Rica |
| Repository: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Language: | Spanish |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/43924 |
| Online Access: | https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/intersedes/article/view/43924 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Banana Plantation Novel Costa Rican Novel Nicaraguan Novel Honduran Novel Food Shortage Biopolitics Novela bananera novela costarricense novela nicaragüense novela hondureña escasez alimentaria biopolítica |
| Summary: | There are different modalities of food shortage. One of them derives from the conditions of labor explotations of workers in banana plantations. This situation is represented in Mamita Yunai, Bananos, and Prisión verde. The control over the bodies of the workers—following Foucault’s concept of biopolitics—is expressed, among other practices of the capitalist transnational corporation, through the monopoly of the distribution and consumption of food. The submission to or rebellion against these practices of food control are the two possibilities that banana plantation workers have at their disposal. |
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