Insistence of the material : literature in the age of biopolitics /

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"Insistence of the Material engages with recent theories of materiality and biopolitics to provide a radical reinterpretation of experimental fiction in the second half of the twentieth century. In contrast to readings that emphasize the metafictional qualities of these works, Christopher Breu...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Breu, Christopher (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2014]
Temas:
1900-1999
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Materialism in literature.
Biopolitics.
Roman américain > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Roman anglais > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Matérialisme dans la littérature.
Biopolitique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
American fiction.
English fiction.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: theorizing materiality in the age of biopolitics
  • The novel enfleshed: Naked lunch and the literature of materiality
  • Vital objects: materiality and biopolitics in Thomas Pynchon's V
  • The late-modern unconscious: the object world of J.G. Ballard's Crash
  • Disinterring the real: embodiment, AIDS, and biomedicalization in Dodie Bellamy's The letters of Mina Harker
  • Almanac of the living: thanatopolitics and an alternative biopolitics in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the dead
  • Conclusion: tarrying with the material.

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