LEADER 03193nam 2200625 450 001 9910823103903321 005 20230803200023.0 010 $a1-4529-4283-8 035 $a(CKB)2670000000574671 035 $a(EBL)1833638 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001368189 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11794045 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001368189 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11449306 035 $a(PQKB)10914062 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1833638 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1833638 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10967793 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL657964 035 $a(OCoLC)894789454 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000574671 100 $a20141118h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aInsistence of the material $eliterature in the age of biopolitics /$fChristopher Breu 210 1$aMinneapolis, Minnesota :$cUniversity of Oklahoma Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (276 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8166-8946-6 311 $a1-322-26684-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; 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 Material 327 $aAcknowledgmentsNotes; 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; Z 330 $aInsistence 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 refu 606 $aAmerican fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aMaterialism in literature 606 $aBiopolitics 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aMaterialism in literature. 615 0$aBiopolitics. 676 $a813/.5409 700 $aBreu$b Christopher$01600087 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910823103903321 996 $aInsistence of the material$93923051 997 $aUNINA