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dc.contributor.authorCarpenter, Victoria
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-17T10:43:08Z
dc.date.available2025-03-17T00:00:00Z
dc.date.available2023-03-17T10:43:08Z
dc.date.issued2023-05-15
dc.identifier.citationCarpenter V (2023) 'When a habit meets a habit at the city dump: persistence and adaptability of habit in Única mirando al mar (2010)', Forum for Modern Language Studies, 59 (2), pp.183-201.en_US
dc.identifier.issn0015-8518
dc.identifier.doi10.1093/fmls/cqad031
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10547/625699
dc.description.abstractFernando Contreras Castro’s novel Única mirando al mar (1993 and 2010) is a bitter, scathing social critique of Costa Rica’s government which occasionally remembers its duty to its tax payers and environment. Re-written in 2010 after the closure of Río Azul, a landfill near San José, it explores the way this action affected the population of the landfill, locally known as the buzos (scuba divers). The critiques of the novel address primarily the buzos’ resilience and the complexity of the relationship between the buzos’ society and the rest of the country. This study will consider the buzos’ society as a social order based on habit and trace its adaptability and persistence in face of multiple changes to the buzos’ life. To this end, I will use the theory of posthegemony with a particular focus on Pierre Bourdieu’s concepts of habit and habitus to explore the adaptability and persistence of the buzos’ habitus as reflected in habitual practices, rituals, and ritual language. I will analyse the 2010 version of the novel, published after the closure of the landfill.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherOxford University Pressen_US
dc.relation.urlhttps://academic.oup.com/fmls/article-abstract/59/2/183/7163181?
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/*
dc.subjecthabiten_US
dc.subjecthabitusen_US
dc.subjectposthegemonyen_US
dc.subjectPierre Bourdieuen_US
dc.subjectFernando Contreras Castroen_US
dc.subjectCosta Ricaen_US
dc.subjectSubject Categories::Q220 Literature in its original languageen_US
dc.titleWhen a habit meets a habit at the city dump: persistence and adaptability of habit in Única mirando al mar (2010)en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.identifier.eissn1471-6860
dc.contributor.departmentUniversity of Bedfordshireen_US
dc.identifier.journalForum for Modern Language Studiesen_US
dc.date.updated2023-03-17T10:40:03Z
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