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

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

Héctor Hoyos

320 pages first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction sociology challenging informative medium-paced
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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 Thin...

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