Things with a History : : Transcultural Materialism and the Literatures of Extraction in Contemporary Latin America / / 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, Héctor Hoyos argues that the roles...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2019]
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Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 16 b&w photographs
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • PART ONE. Objects
  • PART TWO. Assemblages
  • Conclusions: Extractivism Estranged
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index