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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Héctor Hoyos (Assistant Professor, Stanford University)Publisher: Columbia University Press Imprint: Columbia University Press ISBN: 9780231193054ISBN 10: 023119305 Pages: 320 Publication Date: 29 October 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsList 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 IndexReviewsThings 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 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 Author InformationHéctor 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). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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