Mary C. Foltz

Broschiertes Buch

Contemporary American Literature and Excremental Culture

American Sh*t

Beschreibung

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

Autor

Mary C. Foltz is Associate Professor of English, American Studies, and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Lehigh University, USA. Her research and teaching focus upon post-1945 U.S. fiction, queer fiction and theory, waste studies, and environmental literary criticism.

Produktdetails

• American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Springer International Publishing / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-030-46532-2
• 1st edition 2020
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 148mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 371g
• ISBN-13: 9783030465322
• ISBN-10: 3030465322
• Artikelnr.: 62568946