Insistence of the material
Breu, Christopher.
Insistence of the material literature in the age of biopolitics / [electronic resource] : Christopher Breu. - Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2014. - 1 online resource (pages cm) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: theorizing materiality in the age of biopolitics -- The novel enfleshed: Naked lunch and the literature of materiality -- Vital objects: materiality and biopolitics in Thomas Pynchon's V -- The late-modern unconscious: the object world of J.G. Ballard's Crash -- Disinterring the real: embodiment, AIDS, and biomedicalization in Dodie Bellamy's The letters of Mina Harker -- Almanac of the living: thanatopolitics and an alternative biopolitics in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the dead -- Conclusion: tarrying with the material.
9781452942834 1452942838
Biopolitics.
Materialism in literature.
English fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Electronic books.
PS374.M395 / B84 2014
813/.5409
Insistence of the material literature in the age of biopolitics / [electronic resource] : Christopher Breu. - Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2014. - 1 online resource (pages cm) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: theorizing materiality in the age of biopolitics -- The novel enfleshed: Naked lunch and the literature of materiality -- Vital objects: materiality and biopolitics in Thomas Pynchon's V -- The late-modern unconscious: the object world of J.G. Ballard's Crash -- Disinterring the real: embodiment, AIDS, and biomedicalization in Dodie Bellamy's The letters of Mina Harker -- Almanac of the living: thanatopolitics and an alternative biopolitics in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the dead -- Conclusion: tarrying with the material.
9781452942834 1452942838
Biopolitics.
Materialism in literature.
English fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Electronic books.
PS374.M395 / B84 2014
813/.5409