LEADER 03878nam 2200505 450 001 9910484699703321 005 20210304213549.0 010 $a3-030-46530-6 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-46530-8 035 $a(CKB)4100000011493401 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6370227 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-46530-8 035 $a(PPN)250148803 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011493401 100 $a20210304d2020 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aContemporary american literature and excremental culture $eamerican sh*t /$fMary C. Foltz 205 $a1st ed. 2020. 210 1$aCham, Switzerland :$cPalgrave Macmillan,$d[2020] 210 4$dİ2020 215 $a1 online resource (IX, 272 p.) 225 1 $aAmerican Literature Readings in the 21st Century,$x2634-579X 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a3-030-46529-2 327 $a1. On the American Standard: Post-1960 Scatological Fiction -- 2. Soiling the Black Body: Ishmael Reed Engages White Shit -- 3. Battling the Excremental Self: Civilization and Its Decomposition in Jonathan Franzen?s The Corrections -- 4. Fleeing the Excremental Stain through Acquisition: Getting to the Bottom of Black Suburban Splendor in Gloria Naylor?s Linden Hills -- 5. Waste as Weapon: Fecal Bombing in Don DeLillo?s Underworld. - 6. Shit and Other Forms of Dynamite Refuse: Samuel R. Delany?s Provocative Excremental Eros -- 7. Decay as Gift: Composting American Shit. 330 $a?Foltz?s study of human waste in Ishmael Reed, Thomas Pynchon, Gloria Naylor, Don DeLillo, Jonathan Franzen, and Samuel Delany convincingly demonstrates their scatological games to be premised on contesting psychoanalytic theory?s complicity in the upholding of white hegemony, heteronormativity, and patriarchal imperialism. American Sh*t is a valuable intervention into a field that has been too quick to relegate psychoanalysis to the ?scrap heap??and a compelling example of what literary analysis that circumvents the strictures of category and genre can achieve.? ? Dr. Rachele Dini, Department of English and Creative Writing, University of Roehampton, UK Contemporary American Literature and Excremental Culture: American Sh*t analyzes post-1960 scatological novels that utilize representations of human waste to address pressing issues, including pollution of waterways, environmental racism, and militarism. Primarily examining postmodern parody, the book shows the value of aesthetic renderings of sanitary engineering for composting ideologies that fuel a ruinous impact on the world. Drawing on late twentieth-century psychoanalytic thinkers Norman O. Brown, Frantz Fanon, and Leo Bersani, American Sh*t shows the continued relevance of psychoanalytic interpretations of contemporary fiction for understanding post-45 authors? engagement with waste. Ultimately, the monograph reveals how novelists Ishmael Reed, Jonathan Franzen, Gloria Naylor, Don DeLillo, and Samuel R. Delany critique subjects who abnegate their status as waste-producing beings and bring readers back to embrace Winner of the 2019 Northeast Modern Language Association Book Award for Literary Criticism of English Language Literature. 410 0$aAmerican Literature Readings in the 21st Century,$x2634-579X 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y20th century 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y21st century 607 $aAmerica$vLiteratures 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 676 $a810.9355 700 $aFoltz$b Mary C.$0922656 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910484699703321 996 $aContemporary american literature and excremental culture$92070430 997 $aUNINA