03660nam 2200697Ia 450 991045611420332120200520144314.01-58729-271-8(CKB)111056486862686(EBL)837040(OCoLC)50322318(SSID)ssj0000161786(PQKBManifestationID)11169679(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000161786(PQKBWorkID)10219337(PQKB)11702950(MiAaPQ)EBC837040(MdBmJHUP)muse9290(Au-PeEL)EBL837040(CaPaEBR)ebr10354464(EXLCZ)9911105648686268619991109d2000 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrGenre fission[electronic resource] a new discourse practice for cultural studies /Marleen S. BarrIowa City University of Iowa Pressc20001 online resource (291 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-87745-703-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-261) and index.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 Gangs4 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 / Gentile9 Playing with time The Holocaust as "A Different Universe of Discourse"Epilogue: Discourse as Black Hole- and as Liberated Light; Notes; Works Cited; IndexWhat 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.American fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismTheory, etcPostmodernism (Literature)United StatesPostmodernismUnited StatesDiscourse analysis, LiteraryCulturePhilosophyLiterary formUnited StatesCivilization20th centuryElectronic books.American fictionHistory and criticismTheory, etc.Postmodernism (Literature)PostmodernismDiscourse analysis, Literary.CulturePhilosophy.Literary form.306814/.54Barr Marleen S544507MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910456114203321Genre fission2467704UNINA