TY - BOOK AU - Daly,Tara TI - Beyond Human: Vital Materialisms in the Andean Avant-Gardes T2 - Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature and Theory SN - 9781684480715 AV - PQ7082.E97 D35 2019 U1 - 860.9/11 23 PY - 2019///] CY - Lewisburg, PA PB - Bucknell University Press KW - Avant-garde (Aesthetics) ‡z Latin America KW - Avant-garde (Aesthetics) KW - Latin America KW - Literature, Experimental ‡z Latin America ‡x History and criticism KW - Literature, Experimental KW - History and criticism KW - Materialism in literature KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / General KW - bisacsh N1 - 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; restricted access N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.36019/9781684480715?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781684480715 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781684480715/original ER -