Contemporary American Literature and Excremental Culture: American Sh*t (1st ed. 2020) (American Literature Readings in the 21st Century)
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- Synopsis
- Contemporary American Literature and Excremental Culture: American Sh*t analyzes post-1960 scatological novels that utilize representations of human waste to address pressing issues, including pollution of waterways, environmental racism, and militarism. Primarily examining postmodern parody, the book shows the value of aesthetic renderings of sanitary engineering for composting ideologies that fuel a ruinous impact on the world. Drawing on late twentieth-century psychoanalytic thinkers Norman O. Brown, Frantz Fanon, and Leo Bersani, American Sh*t shows the continued relevance of psychoanalytic interpretations of contemporary fiction for understanding post-45 authors’ engagement with waste. Ultimately, the monograph reveals how novelists Ishmael Reed, Jonathan Franzen, Gloria Naylor, Don DeLillo, and Samuel R. Delany critique subjects who abnegate their status as waste-producing beings and bring readers back to embraceWinner of the 2019 Northeast Modern Language Association Book Award for Literary Criticism of English Language Literature
- Copyright:
- 2020
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- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9783030465308
- Related ISBNs:
- 9783030465292
- Publisher:
- Springer International Publishing
- Date of Addition:
- 10/14/20
- Copyrighted By:
- Springer
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Social Studies, Language Arts
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