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Italian Trans Geographies
Danila Cannamela, Marzia Mauriello, Summer Minerva
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R2,249
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The blending of people and living machines is a central element in
the futurist "reconstruction of the universe." However, prior to
the futurist break, a group of early-twentieth-century poets, later
dubbed crepuscolari (crepusculars), had already begun an attack
against the dominant cultural system, using their poetry as the
locus in which useless little objects clashed with the traditional
poetry of human greatness and stylistic perfection. The Quiet
Avant-Garde draws from a number of twenty-first-century theories -
vital materialism, object-oriented ontology, and environmental
humanities - as well as Bruno Latour's criticism of modernity to
illustrate how the crepuscular movement sabotaged the modern
mindset and launched the counter-discourse of the Italian
avant-garde by blurring the line dividing people from "things."
This liminal poetics, at the crossroad of tradition, modernism, and
the avant-garde, acted as the initiator of the ethical and
environmental transition from a universe subjected to humans to
human-thing co-agency. This book proposes a contemporary reading of
Italian twentieth-century movements and offers a foothold for
scholars outside Italian studies to access authors who are still
unexplored in North American literature.
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