Things with a History: Transcultural Materialism and the Literatures of Extraction in Contemporary Latin America

by Héctor Hoyos

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, H ctor Hoyos argues that the roles of objects in recent Latin American fiction offer a way to integrate materialisms old and new, transforming our understanding of how things shape social...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231193041
• ISBN13: 9780231193047
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"