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Extreme States: The Evolution of American Transgressive Fiction 1960-2000 de Coco d'Hont

Extreme States: The Evolution of American Transgressive Fiction 1960-2000: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature

Autor Coco d'Hont
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Transgressive fiction explores the crossing of boundaries. Because of its extreme content and style, it is often considered controversial. However, transgressive fiction is not just shocking or disruptive. It is a continuation of an American tradition of creating culture through the crossing of moral, geographical and social boundaries. Extreme States traces the evolution of American transgressive fiction from the 1960s to 2000, exploring how transgressive fiction reflects, exaggerates and critically interrogates how central American ideologies are perpetually (re)constructed in its extra-textual context.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780367664534
ISBN-10: 0367664534
Pagini: 196
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 11 mm
Greutate: 0.24 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Cuprins



Preface




1 Dead in the Water? Reading Transgression as a Central Social Mechanism


Moving Beyond Marginality: (Re)defining Transgression


A Perverse Society? Transgression and American Culture


The Body of Work: What Is Transgressive Fiction?


A History of Transgression: Case Studies




2 Too Much Filth to Handle: Pornography and Capitalism in Hogg


Dirt, Sex and Violence: Breaking Through the Surface


Wandering Around the Wasteland: An Alternative America


Constructing Mainstream Marginality: Racism, Homophobia and Misogyny


The (S)innocent Child: The Nuclear Family and Morality




3 Saving the West: Environmentalism and Conservatism in The Monkey Wrench Gang


A Modern-Day Thoreau: An Environmentalist History


Maintenance through Destruction: Saving the American West


Reinventing the Vigilante: Masculinity as Activist Vehicle


The West as a Playing Field: Narrative Distortion and Critical Exploration




4 A Painful Past: Rememory, Monstrosity and Intersectionality in Beloved


A Ghost From the Past: Uncomfortable Histories


Monsters and Reconstruction: Learning from the Past


Half-formed Things: Building Gendered and Ethnic Identities


Under Construction: Fluid Freedoms




5 The Perfect Neoliberal: The Corporate and the Corporeal in American Psycho


Consuming Objects: Commodity Fetishism and the Corporeal


The Power of the Corporeal: Corporate Instability


Chasing the Cipher: Bodily Violation as Critical Interrogation


Reinventing Neoliberalism: Crisis and Regeneration




6 Wild Men: Freedom and Masculinity in Fight Club


Infected Masculinity: Reforming Capitalism through the Male Body


Infecting Society: Project Mayhem as Social Disease


Rethinking the Ethics of Physicality: Gender and the Politics of Illness


The End of Freedom? The Return of the Limit




7 "This Is Not an Exit": The (Non) Death of Transgression


From Safety Valve to Critical Exploration: Transgressive Fiction as a Fictional Lab


The Mind-Body Problem: Connecting Ideology and Physicality


Moving beyond Boundaries: Transgressive Fiction After the Turn of the Century


No Future? The Continued Importance of Transgressive Fiction




Index

Notă biografică

Coco d’Hont is an independent scholar who researches contemporary American fiction and popular culture. She holds a PhD from the University of East Anglia (UK). Recent projects include explorations of Marilyn Manson, published in the European Journal of American Studies, Mary Harron’s American Psycho, and Chuck Palahniuk’s post-9/11 fiction.

Recenzii

Is transgression only about breaking the rules, or is it also creative and reconstitutive, part of a perpetual reconfiguration of American culture? Is it about style, or is it about ideas? Coco d’Hont, in her study of American fiction since the 1960s, helps us see transgression as violation, creation, and ideology.
—Christopher Phelps, University of Nottingham
"Transgression as a concept involves so much more than the cliché of that which is outré or titillating, usually understood in sexual or aesthetic terms. At last, with Extreme States, we have a monograph that explores the ways in which the crossing of borders, boundaries, and categories is both central to much recent American fiction, and key to understanding the contemporary American ideological imaginary."
—Lisa Downing, University of Birmingham

Descriere

Extreme States traces the evolution of American transgressive fiction from the 1960s to 2000, exploring how transgressive fiction reflects, exaggerates and critically interrogates how central American ideologies are perpetually (re)constructed in its extra-textual context.