03193nam 2200625 450 991082310390332120230803200023.01-4529-4283-8(CKB)2670000000574671(EBL)1833638(SSID)ssj0001368189(PQKBManifestationID)11794045(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001368189(PQKBWorkID)11449306(PQKB)10914062(MiAaPQ)EBC1833638(Au-PeEL)EBL1833638(CaPaEBR)ebr10967793(CaONFJC)MIL657964(OCoLC)894789454(EXLCZ)99267000000057467120141118h20142014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrInsistence of the material literature in the age of biopolitics /Christopher BreuMinneapolis, Minnesota :University of Oklahoma Press,2014.©20141 online resource (276 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-8946-6 1-322-26684-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Contents; Preface: Origin Story; Introduction: Theorizing Materiality in the Age of Biopolitics; 1. The Novel Enfleshed: Naked Lunch and the Literature of Materiality; 2. Vital Objects: Materiality and Biopolitics in Thomas Pynchon's V.; 3. The Late- Modern Unconscious: The Object World of J. G. Ballard's Crash; 4. Disinterring the Real: Embodiment, AIDS, and Biomedicalization in Dodie Bellamy's The Letters of Mina Harker; 5. Almanac of the Living: Thanatopolitics and an Alternative Biopolitics in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead; Conclusion: Tarrying with the MaterialAcknowledgmentsNotes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; ZInsistence 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 examines this literature's focus on the material conditions of everyday life, from the body to built environments, and from ecosystems to economic production. In Insistence of the Material, Breu rethinks contemporary understandings of biopolitics, affirming the importance of forms of materiality that refuAmerican fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismEnglish fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismMaterialism in literatureBiopoliticsAmerican fictionHistory and criticism.English fictionHistory and criticism.Materialism in literature.Biopolitics.813/.5409Breu Christopher1600087MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910823103903321Insistence of the material3923051UNINA