Extreme States traces the evolution of American transgressive fiction from the 1960s to 2000, exploring how transgressive fiction reflects, exaggerates and critically interrogates how central American ideologies are perpetually (re)constructed in its extra-textual context.
Extreme States traces the evolution of American transgressive fiction from the 1960s to 2000, exploring how transgressive fiction reflects, exaggerates and critically interrogates how central American ideologies are perpetually (re)constructed in its extra-textual context.
Coco d'Hont is an independent scholar who researches contemporary American fiction and popular culture. She holds a PhD from the University of East Anglia (UK). Recent projects include explorations of Marilyn Manson, published in the European Journal of American Studies, Mary Harron's American Psycho, and Chuck Palahniuk's post-9/11 fiction.
Inhaltsangabe
Preface 1 Dead in the Water? Reading Transgression as a Central Social Mechanism Moving Beyond Marginality: (Re)defining Transgression A Perverse Society? Transgression and American Culture The Body of Work: What Is Transgressive Fiction? A History of Transgression: Case Studies 2 Too Much Filth to Handle: Pornography and Capitalism in Hogg Dirt, Sex and Violence: Breaking Through the Surface Wandering Around the Wasteland: An Alternative America Constructing Mainstream Marginality: Racism, Homophobia and Misogyny The (S)innocent Child: The Nuclear Family and Morality 3 Saving the West: Environmentalism and Conservatism in The Monkey Wrench Gang A Modern-Day Thoreau: An Environmentalist History Maintenance through Destruction: Saving the American West Reinventing the Vigilante: Masculinity as Activist Vehicle The West as a Playing Field: Narrative Distortion and Critical Exploration 4 A Painful Past: Rememory, Monstrosity and Intersectionality in Beloved A Ghost From the Past: Uncomfortable Histories Monsters and Reconstruction: Learning from the Past Half-formed Things: Building Gendered and Ethnic Identities Under Construction: Fluid Freedoms 5 The Perfect Neoliberal: The Corporate and the Corporeal in American Psycho Consuming Objects: Commodity Fetishism and the Corporeal The Power of the Corporeal: Corporate Instability Chasing the Cipher: Bodily Violation as Critical Interrogation Reinventing Neoliberalism: Crisis and Regeneration 6 Wild Men: Freedom and Masculinity in Fight Club Infected Masculinity: Reforming Capitalism through the Male Body Infecting Society: Project Mayhem as Social Disease Rethinking the Ethics of Physicality: Gender and the Politics of Illness The End of Freedom? The Return of the Limit 7 "This Is Not an Exit": The (Non) Death of Transgression From Safety Valve to Critical Exploration: Transgressive Fiction as a Fictional Lab The Mind-Body Problem: Connecting Ideology and Physicality Moving beyond Boundaries: Transgressive Fiction After the Turn of the Century No Future? The Continued Importance of Transgressive Fiction Index
Preface 1 Dead in the Water? Reading Transgression as a Central Social Mechanism Moving Beyond Marginality: (Re)defining Transgression A Perverse Society? Transgression and American Culture The Body of Work: What Is Transgressive Fiction? A History of Transgression: Case Studies 2 Too Much Filth to Handle: Pornography and Capitalism in Hogg Dirt, Sex and Violence: Breaking Through the Surface Wandering Around the Wasteland: An Alternative America Constructing Mainstream Marginality: Racism, Homophobia and Misogyny The (S)innocent Child: The Nuclear Family and Morality 3 Saving the West: Environmentalism and Conservatism in The Monkey Wrench Gang A Modern-Day Thoreau: An Environmentalist History Maintenance through Destruction: Saving the American West Reinventing the Vigilante: Masculinity as Activist Vehicle The West as a Playing Field: Narrative Distortion and Critical Exploration 4 A Painful Past: Rememory, Monstrosity and Intersectionality in Beloved A Ghost From the Past: Uncomfortable Histories Monsters and Reconstruction: Learning from the Past Half-formed Things: Building Gendered and Ethnic Identities Under Construction: Fluid Freedoms 5 The Perfect Neoliberal: The Corporate and the Corporeal in American Psycho Consuming Objects: Commodity Fetishism and the Corporeal The Power of the Corporeal: Corporate Instability Chasing the Cipher: Bodily Violation as Critical Interrogation Reinventing Neoliberalism: Crisis and Regeneration 6 Wild Men: Freedom and Masculinity in Fight Club Infected Masculinity: Reforming Capitalism through the Male Body Infecting Society: Project Mayhem as Social Disease Rethinking the Ethics of Physicality: Gender and the Politics of Illness The End of Freedom? The Return of the Limit 7 "This Is Not an Exit": The (Non) Death of Transgression From Safety Valve to Critical Exploration: Transgressive Fiction as a Fictional Lab The Mind-Body Problem: Connecting Ideology and Physicality Moving beyond Boundaries: Transgressive Fiction After the Turn of the Century No Future? The Continued Importance of Transgressive Fiction Index
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