| Contemporary American Literature and Excremental Culture: American Sh*t 2020 Edition Contributor(s): Foltz, Mary C. (Author) |
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ISBN: 3030465292 ISBN-13: 9783030465292 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Hardcover Published: October 2020 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Modern - General - Literary Criticism | American - General |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (1.15 lbs) 272 pages |
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| Publisher Description: 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 |