TY - BOOK AU - Breu,Christopher ED - Project Muse. TI - Insistence of the material: literature in the age of biopolitics SN - 9781452942834 AV - PS374.M395 B84 2014 U1 - 813/.5409 23 PY - 2014/// CY - Minneapolis PB - University of Minnesota Press KW - Biopolitics KW - Materialism in literature KW - English fiction KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - American fiction KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - 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 UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781452942834/ ER -