| 書目名稱 | Contemporary American Literature and Excremental Culture |
| 副標(biāo)題 | American Sh*t |
| 編輯 | Mary C. Foltz |
| 視頻video | http://file.papertrans.cn/237/236344/236344.mp4 |
| 概述 | Illustrates how authors of the post-war period across genres use toiletry as metaphor to describe social engineering, the construction of race, and the logic of war.Winner of the 2019 Northeast Modern |
| 叢書名稱 | American Literature Readings in the 21st Century |
| 圖書封面 |  |
| 描述 | .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. |
| 出版日期 | Book 2020 |
| 關(guān)鍵詞 | Scatological satire; Postmodern parody; Post-45 US Literature; Psychoanalytic literary criticism; Litera |
| 版次 | 1 |
| doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46530-8 |
| isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-46532-2 |
| isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-46530-8Series ISSN 2634-579X Series E-ISSN 2634-5803 |
| issn_series | 2634-579X |
| copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |