Anti-Apocalypse : Exercises in Genealogical Criticism

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Drawing on feminist and Foucauldian theory, Quinby offers a powerful critique of the millenarian rhetoric that pervades American culture. Tracing the deployment of power through systems of alliance, sexuality, and technology, the author promotes a variety of critical stancesgenealogical feminism, an...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Quinby, Lee
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1994.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Postmodernism (Literature)
Literature and society.
Genealogy in literature.
Feminism and literature.
Civilization.
Genealogie dans la litterature.
Postmodernisme (Litterature) > États-Unis.
Litterature et societe > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Litterature apocalyptique > Histoire et critique > Theorie, etc.
Litterature americaine > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique > Theorie, etc.
Postmodernism (Literature) > United States.
Literature and society > United States > History > 20th century.
Feminism and literature > United States > History > 20th century.
Apocalyptic literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
United States.
États-Unis > Civilisation > 20e siecle.
United States > Civilization > 20th century.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments; Introduction: Apocalyptic Fits; Part I. Genealogy Now; 1. Eu(jean)ics: The New Fashion in Power; 2. Genealogical Feminism: A Politic Way of Looking; 3. Philosophy Today: Not-for-Prophet Thought; Part II. The Re-Creations and Recreations of Adam and Eve: Reading Modernist Texts in Postmodern Contexts; 4. Conceiving the New Man: Henry Adams and the Birth of Ironic Apocalypse; 5. "Woman Got de Key": Zora Neale Hurston and Resistance to Apocalypse; Part III. A Book of Revelry: The Decline and Fall of the American Empire.

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