The Quiet Avant‐Garde

The Quiet Avant-Garde explores how crepuscularism and futurism, two early-twentieth-century Italian movements, have redefined the relation between the human and the nonhuman.

Danila Cannamela is an assistant professor in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages at the University of St. Thomas.

"Engaging, important, and well researched, The Quiet Avant-Garde argues that Italy’s avant-garde blurs the boundary between human and non-human at the start of the twentieth century, drawing readers’ attention to the vibrant agency of a wide range of matter as represented in futurist and crepuscular writing."

Matteo Gilebbi, Department of French and Italian, Dartmouth College:

"The Quiet Avant-Garde is an important contribution to the research on Italian modernism and avant-garde movements and an inspiring work of literary criticism that successfully engages with posthumanism and other current philosophical and literary theories."