This book examines manufactured waste and remaindered humans in
literary critiques of capitalism by twentieth-century writers
associated with the historical avant-garde and their descendants.
Building on recent work in new materialism and waste studies,
Rachele Dini reads waste as a process or phase amenable to
interruption. From an initial exploration of waste and re-use in
three Surrealist texts by Giorgio de Chirico, Andre Breton, and
Mina Loy, Dini traces the conceptualization of waste in the writing
of Samuel Beckett, Donald Barthelme, J.G. Ballard, William Gaddis,
and Don DeLillo. In exploring the relationship between waste,
capitalism, and literary experimentation, this book shows that the
legacy of the historical avant-garde is bound up with an enduring
faith in the radical potential of waste. The first study to focus
specifically on waste in the twentieth-century imagination, this is
a valuable contribution to the expanding field of waste studies.
General
| Imprint: |
Palgrave Macmillan
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Release date: |
June 2018 |
| First published: |
2016 |
| Authors: |
Rachele Dini
|
| Dimensions: |
210 x 148 x 14mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
253 |
| Edition: |
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-349-95496-4 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Language & Literature >
Literature: texts >
General
|
| LSN: |
1-349-95496-9 |
| Barcode: |
9781349954964 |
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