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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813711503321

Autore

Barr Marleen S

Titolo

Genre fission : a new discourse practice for cultural studies / / Marleen S. Barr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2000

ISBN

1-58729-271-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (291 p.)

Disciplina

306

814/.54

814.54

Soggetti

American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism - Theory, etc

Postmodernism (Literature) - United States

Postmodernism - United States

Discourse analysis, Literary

Culture - Philosophy

Literary form

United States Civilization 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-261) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction "The Grand Mix" or Who Wears the White Hats When the Barbie Liberation Organization Strikes Back?; 1 Bridging the Dead father's canonical divide Max Apple, Saul Bellow, Edgar Allan Poe, and Lynn Redgrave Form a Textual Cross- Dresser Support Group; 2 "Sll good things" The End of ""Star Trek: The Next Generation,"" the End of Camelot, and the End of the Tale about Woman as Handmaid to Patriarchyas- Superman; 3 Shutting the bestial mouth Confessions of Male Clones and Girl Gangs

4 Night watch in amsterdam's red light district Prostitutes / Dutch Windows / Utopian and Dystopian Gazes5 Los York / New Angeles "New York, New York, a Helluva Town" Sings "I Wish They All Could Be California Girls"; 6 American middle-class males mark the moon Retrospectively Reading the Apollo Program or Lorena Bobbitt vs. the ""Saturn 5""; 7 Women "churtening" via the cha cha Ursula K. Le Guin and Hispanic- American Authors Write to the Same Rhythm; 8 Wrapping



the reichstag vs. rapping racism or "a colored kind of white people" Black /White / Jew / Gentile

9 Playing with time The Holocaust as "A Different Universe of Discourse"Epilogue: Discourse as Black Hole- and as Liberated Light; Notes; Works Cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

What do Amsterdam prostitutes, NASA astronauts, cross-dressing texts, and Star Trek  characters have in common?  In Genre Fission, Marleen Barr wittily and eccentrically revitalizes cultural and literary theory by examining the points where such vastly different categories meet, converge, and reemerge as something new.