Things with a History: Transcultural Materialism and the Literatures of Extraction in Contemporary Latin America by Héctor Hoyos
English | December 6th, 2019 | ISBN: 023119305X | 320 pages | EPUB | 6.56 MB
English | December 6th, 2019 | ISBN: 023119305X | 320 pages | EPUB | 6.56 MB
Can rubber trees, silicone dolls, corpses, soil, subatomic particles, designer shoes, and discarded computers become the protagonists of contemporary literature—and what does this tell us about the relationship between humans and objects? In Things with a History, Héctor Hoyos argues that the roles of objects in recent Latin American fiction offers a way to integrate materialisms old and new, transforming our understanding of how things shape social and political relations.