Contemporary American Literature And Excremental Culture

Author : Mary C. Foltz
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030465308

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Contemporary American Literature and Excremental Culture by Mary C. Foltz Pdf

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

Author : Laura Lazzari,Nathalie Ségeral
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030774073

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Trauma and Motherhood in Contemporary Literature and Culture by Laura Lazzari,Nathalie Ségeral Pdf

Trauma and Motherhood in Contemporary Literature and Culture repositions motherhood studies through the lens of trauma theory by exploring new challenges surrounding conception, pregnancy, and postpartum experiences. Chapters investigate nine case studies of motherhood trauma and recovery in literature and culture from the last twenty years by exploring their emotional consequences through the lens of trauma, resilience, and “working through” theories. Contributions engage with a transnational corpus drawn from the five continents and span topics as rarely discussed as pregnancy denial, surrogacy, voluntary or involuntary childlessness, racism and motherhood, carceral mothering practices, surrogacy, IVF, artificial wombs, and mothering through war, genocide, and migration. Accompanied by an online creative supplement, this volume deals with silenced aspects of embodied motherhood while enhancing a better understanding of the cathartic effects of storytelling.

Author : Beth Widmaier Capo,Laura Lazzari
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030995300

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The Palgrave Handbook of Reproductive Justice and Literature by Beth Widmaier Capo,Laura Lazzari Pdf

This handbook offers a collection of scholarly essays that analyze questions of reproductive justice throughout its cultural representation in global literature and film. It offers analysis of specific texts carefully situated in their evolving historical, economic, and cultural contexts. Reproductive justice is taken beyond the American setting in which the theory and movement began; chapters apply concepts to international realities and literatures from different countries and cultures by covering diverse genres of cultural production, including film, television, YouTube documentaries, drama, short story, novel, memoir, and self-help literature. Each chapter analyzes texts from within the framework of reproductive justice in an interdisciplinary way, including English, Japanese, Italian, Spanish, and German language, literature and culture, comparative literature, film, South Asian fiction, Canadian theatre, writing, gender studies, Deaf studies, disability studies, global health and medical humanities, and sociology. Academics, graduate students and advanced undergraduate students in Literature, Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies, Cultural Studies, Motherhood Studies, Comparative Literature, History, Sociology, the Medical Humanities, Reproductive Justice, and Human Rights are the main audience of the volume.

Author : Rachele Dini
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501367373

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“All-Electric” Narratives by Rachele Dini Pdf

Winner of the 2023 Emily Toth Award for Best Single Work in Women's Studies “All-Electric” Narratives is the first in-depth study of time-saving electrical appliances in American literature. It examines the literary depiction of refrigerators, vacuum cleaners, oven ranges, washing machines, dryers, dishwashers, toasters, blenders, standing and hand-held mixers, and microwave ovens between 1945, when the “all-electric” home came to be associated with the nation's hard-won victory, and 2020, as contemporary writers consider the enduring material and spiritual effects of these objects in the 21st century. The appropriation and subversion of the rhetoric of domestic electrification and time-saving comprises a crucial, but overlooked, element in 20th-century literary forms and genres including Beat literature, Black American literature, second-wave feminist fiction, science fiction, and postmodernist fiction. Through close-readings of dozens of literary texts alongside print and television ads from this period, Dini shows how U.S. writers have unearthed the paradoxes inherent to claims of appliances' capacity to “give back” time to their user, transport them into a technologically-progressive future, or “return” them to some pastoral past. In so doing, she reveals literary appliances' role in raising questions about gender norms and sexuality, racial exclusion and erasure, class anxieties, the ramifications of mechanization, the perils and possibilities of conformity, the limitations of patriotism, and the inevitable fallacy of utopian thinking-while both shaping and radically disrupting the literary forms in which they operated.

Author : Sanford Pinsker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : UOM:39015019570632

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Bearing the Bad News by Sanford Pinsker Pdf

Author : Oliver Davis,Tim Dean
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781496230591

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Hatred of Sex by Oliver Davis,Tim Dean Pdf

""Hatred of Sex" utilizes Jacques Rancière's thesis in "Hatred of Democracy" to help explain the aversion to sex that, in numerous forms, is observed in the culture around us"--

Author : Sarah K. Harrison
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317285960

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Waste Matters by Sarah K. Harrison Pdf

How do those pushed to the margins survive in contemporary cities? What role do they play in today’s increasingly complex urban ecosystems? Faced with stark disparities in human and environmental wellbeing, what form might more equitable cities take? Waste Matters argues that contemporary literature and film offer an insightful and timely response to these questions through their formal and thematic revaluation of urban waste. In their creation of a new urban imaginary which centres on discarded things, degraded places and devalued people, authors and artists such as Patrick Chamoiseau, Chris Abani, Dinaw Mengestu, Suketu Mehta and Vik Muniz suggest opportunities for an inclusive urban politics that demands systematic analysis. Waste Matters assesses the utopian promise and pragmatic limitations of their as yet under-examined work in light of today’s pressing urban challenges. This book will be of great interest to scholars and students of English Literature, Postcolonial Studies, Urban Studies, Environmental Humanities and Film Studies.

Author : Christos Hadjiyiannis,Rachel Potter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108888554

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The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature and Politics by Christos Hadjiyiannis,Rachel Potter Pdf

For a long time, people had been schooled to think of modern literature's relationship to politics as indirect or obscure, and often to find the politics of literature deep within its unconsciously ideological structures and forms. But twentieth-century writers were directly involved in political parties and causes, and many viewed their writing as part of their activism. This Companion tell a story of the rich and diverse ways in which literature and politics over the twentieth century coincided, overlapped – and also clashed. Covering some of the century's most influential political ideas, moments, and movements, nineteen academic experts uncover new ways of thinking about the relationship between literature and politics. Liberalism, communism, fascism, suffragism, pacifism, federalism, different nationalisms, civil rights, women's rights, sexual rights, Indigenous rights, environmentalism, neoliberalism: twentieth-century authors wrote in direct response to political movements, ideas, events, and campaigns.

Author : Konstantinos Blatanis
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0838640087

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Popular Culture Icons in Contemporary American Drama by Konstantinos Blatanis Pdf

The discussion addresses the task of theater images in a cultural field where the real is mistaken for its reflection, originality constantly played against seriality, at a moment when simulacra, clones, and emulations of selves and texts become firmly established as the norm. The accommodation of pop icons on stage and the results this framing yields constitute this work's primary interests and aims."--Jacket.

Author : Linda De Roche
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1563 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781440853593

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Twentieth-Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context [4 volumes] by Linda De Roche Pdf

This four-volume reference work surveys American literature from the early 20th century to the present day, featuring a diverse range of American works and authors and an expansive selection of primary source materials. Bringing useful and engaging material into the classroom, this four-volume set covers more than a century of American literary history—from 1900 to the present. Twentieth-Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context profiles authors and their works and provides overviews of literary movements and genres through which readers will understand the historical, cultural, and political contexts that have shaped American writing. Twentieth-Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context provides wide coverage of authors, works, genres, and movements that are emblematic of the diversity of modern America. Not only are major literary movements represented, such as the Beats, but this work also highlights the emergence and development of modern Native American literature, African American literature, and other representative groups that showcase the diversity of American letters. A rich selection of primary documents and background material provides indispensable information for student research.

Author : Fran Mason
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2007-02-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810864542

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Historical Dictionary of Postmodernist Literature and Theater by Fran Mason Pdf

The Historical Dictionary of Postmodernist Literature and Theater examines the different areas of postmodernist literature and the variety of forms that have been produced. This is accomplished through a list of acronyms, a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and several hundred cross-referenced dictionary entries on individual postmodernist writers, the important postmodernist aesthetic practices, significant texts produced throughout the history of postmodernist writing, and important movements and ideas that have created a variety of literary approaches within the form. By placing these concerns within the historical, philosophical, and cultural contexts of postmodernism, this reference explores the frameworks within which postmodernist literature of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century operates.

Author : Heike Schaefer,Alexander Starre
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030225452

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The Printed Book in Contemporary American Culture by Heike Schaefer,Alexander Starre Pdf

This essay collection explores the cultural functions the printed book performs in the digital age. It examines how the use of and attitude toward the book form have changed in light of the digital transformation of American media culture. Situated at the crossroads of American studies, literary studies, book studies, and media studies, these essays show that a sustained focus on the medial and material formats of literary communication significantly expands our accustomed ways of doing cultural studies. Addressing the changing roles of authors, publishers, and readers while covering multiple bookish formats such as artists’ books, bestselling novels, experimental fiction, and zines, this interdisciplinary volume introduces readers to current transatlantic conversations on the history and future of the printed book.

Author : Fran Mason
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literature, Modern
ISBN : 9780810868557

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The A to Z of Postmodernist Literature and Theater by Fran Mason Pdf

"The A to Z of Postmodernist Literature and Theater examines the different areas of postmodernist literature and theater and the variety of forms that have been produced. It contains a list of acronyms, a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and several hundred cross-referenced dictionary entries on individual writers, important aesthetic practices, significant texts, and important movements and ideas that have created a variety of literary approaches within the form. By placing these concerns within the historical, philosophical, and cultural contexts of postmodernism, this reference explores the frameworks within which postmodernist literature of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries operates." --Book Jacket.

Author : Steven Weisenburger
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0820316687

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Fables of Subversion by Steven Weisenburger Pdf

Drawing on more than thirty novels by nineteen writers, Fables of Subversion is both a survey of mid-twentieth century American fiction and a study of how these novels challenged the conventions of satire. Steven Weisenburger focuses on the rise of a radically subversive mode of satire from 1930 to 1980. This postmodern satire, says Weisenburger, stands in crucial opposition to corrective, normative satire, which has served a legitimizing function by generating, through ridicule, a consensus on values. Weisenburger argues that satire in this generative mode does not participate in the oppositional, subversive work of much twentieth-century art. Chapters focus on theories of satire, early subversions of satiric conventions by Nathanael West, Flannery O'Connor, and John Hawkes, the flowering of "Black Humor" fictions of the sixties, and the forms of political and encyclopedic satire prominent throughout the period. Many of the writers included here, such as Vladimir Nabokov, William Gaddis, Kurt Vonnegut, Robert Coover, and Thomas Pynchon, are acknowledged masters of contemporary humor. Others, such as Mary McCarthy, Chester Himes, James Purdy, Charles Wright, and Ishmael Reed, have not previously been considered in this context. Posing a seminal challenge to existing theories of satire, Fables of Subversion explores the iconoclastic energies of the new satires as a driving force in late modern and post-modern novel writing.

Author : Edmundo Paz Soldán,Debra A. Castillo
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0815338945

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Latin American Literature and Mass Media by Edmundo Paz Soldán,Debra A. Castillo Pdf

This volume examines Latin American literature in the context of a complimentary audiovisual culture dominated by mass media such as photography, film, and the Internet. The articles gathered here, all of them published for the first time, critically assess Latin American media theories (Garcia Canclini et al.), pointing out their strengths and shortcomings; show how literary works have been able to sustain their visibility in a highly competitive media ecology, accommodating to pop and mass culture while at the same time reaffirming the authority of the literary intellectual. Overall, the book's foregrounding of the impact of mass media on Latin American literature opens the critical debate on an increasingly essential subject.