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Insistence of the material : literature in the age of biopolitics / / Christopher Breu



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Autore: Breu Christopher Visualizza persona
Titolo: Insistence of the material : literature in the age of biopolitics / / Christopher Breu Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, Minnesota : , : University of Oklahoma Press, , 2014
©2014
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (276 p.)
Disciplina: 813/.5409
Soggetto topico: American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism
English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism
Materialism in literature
Biopolitics
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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 Material
AcknowledgmentsNotes; 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
Sommario/riassunto: Insistence 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
Titolo autorizzato: Insistence of the material  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-4529-4283-8
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910463530203321
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