Necrosis and the Residualcene: Bajo este sol tremendo by Carlos Busqued as “Agrofiction”
This article examines Carlos Busqued’s Bajo este sol tremendo (2008) in relation to the extractive model of agribusiness and soybean monoculture in the Province of Chaco. Drawing on the concept of agrofiction ─a reformulation of the term “petrofiction” first proposed by Ghosh and later developed by...
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Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires
2026
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/matadero/article/view/17615 |
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| Sumario: | This article examines Carlos Busqued’s Bajo este sol tremendo (2008) in relation to the extractive model of agribusiness and soybean monoculture in the Province of Chaco. Drawing on the concept of agrofiction ─a reformulation of the term “petrofiction” first proposed by Ghosh and later developed by Szeman─ it explores how the novel registers the effects of agro-extractive capitalism on both social and ecological life. Situated within recent trends in Argentine rural fiction that mobilize tropes from the noir and horror genres, the study interprets the violence and social decay depicted in the novel as symptoms of a “necrosis” (Casid), a process of extinction that undermines biodiversity as well as social bonds. Finally, the novel’s emphasis on waste is analyzed through the lens of the “Wasteocene” (Armiero), which conceptualizes waste not merely as degraded materiality but as the outcome of socio-ecological relations that render territories and lives disposable. |
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