Things with a History: Transcultural Materialism and the Literatures of Extraction in Contemporary Latin America
Author:   Héctor Hoyos (Assistant Professor, Stanford University)
Publisher:   Columbia University Press
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Pages:   320
Publication Date:   29 October 2019
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Héctor Hoyos (Assistant Professor, Stanford University)
Publisher:   Columbia University Press
Imprint:   Columbia University Press
ISBN:  

9780231193054


ISBN 10:   023119305
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   29 October 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: A Tale of Two Materialisms Part I: Objects 1. Raw Stuff Disavowed 2. Of Rocks and Particles 3. Corpse Narratives as Literary History Part II: Assemblages 4. Politics and Praxis of Hyperfetishism 5. Digitalia from the Margins Conclusions: Extractivism Estranged Notes Bibliography Index

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Things With a History is a sensationally rich, deeply thought-out book about the dynamic relationship between words and things. In a fine-grained textual commentary, Hoyos follows the texts' meanderings, noting their complexities, and avoiding unnecessary reductiveness. Combining critical imagination with theoretical rigor, Hoyos persuasively breathes new life and meaning into new materialism and its predecessors.--An bal Gonz lez-P rez, Yale University


Things With a History is a sensationally rich, deeply thought-out book about the dynamic relationship between words and things. In a fine-grained textual commentary, Hoyos follows the texts' meanderings, noting their complexities, and avoiding unnecessary reductiveness. Combining critical imagination with theoretical rigor, Hoyos persuasively breathes new life and meaning into new materialism and its predecessors. -- Anibal Gonzalez-Perez, Yale University


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Héctor Hoyos is associate professor of Latin American literature and culture at Stanford University. He is the author of Beyond Bolaño: The Global Latin American Novel (Columbia, 2015).

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