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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Breu, Christopher (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2014]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Materialism in literature.
English fiction.
Biopolitics.
American fiction.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Biopolitique.
Materialisme dans la litterature.
Roman anglais > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Roman americain > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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