Beyond Human : : Vital Materialisms in the Andean Avant-Gardes / / Tara Daly.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019 English
• VerfasserIn: Daly, Tara,
• Place / Publishing House: Lewisburg, PA : : Bucknell University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature and Theory
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (243 p.) :; 13

In the Andes, indigenous knowledge systems based on the relationships between different beings, both earthly and heavenly, animal and plant, have been central to the organization of knowledge since precolonial times. The legacies of colonialism and the continuance of indigenous cultures make the Andes a unique place from which to think about art and social change as ongoing, and as encompassing more than an exclusively human perspective. Beyond Human revises established readings of the avant-gardes in Peru and Bolivia as humanizing and historical. By presenting fresh readings of canonical authors like César Vallejo, José María Arguedas, and Magda Portal, and through analysis of newer artist-activists like Julieta Paredes, Mujeres Creando Comunidad, and Alejandra Dorado, Daly argues instead that avant-gardes complicate questions of agency and contribute to theoretical discussions on vital materialisms: the idea that life happens between animate and inanimate beings—human and non-human—and is made sensible through art. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- A Note on Translations -- Introduction: Revitalizing the Andean Avant-Gardes -- 1. César Vallejo’s Lithic Poetry: Stones as Material Guides -- 2. Alejandra Dorado’s Installation Art: Material Transmutations in Contemporary Cochabamba -- 3. José María Arguedas’s 1960s: The Air as Space of Material Encounters -- 4. Mujeres Creando Comunidad: Communitarian Feminisms from the Bolivian Soil -- 5. Magda Portal’s Bare Life in the Sea -- Conclusion: New Material Orientations in the Andes and Beyond -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author