Insistence of the material [electronic resource] : literature in the age of biopolitics / Christopher Breu.
Material type: TextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2014. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm)ISBN:- 9781452942834
- 1452942838
- 813/.5409 23
- PS374.M395 B84 2014
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.
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