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Modernity is made and unmade by the anecdotal. Conceived as a
literary genre, a narrative element of criticism, and, most
crucially, a mode of historiography, the anecdote illuminates the
convergences as well as the fault lines cutting across modern
practices of knowledge production. The volume explores uses of the
anecdotal in exemplary case studies from the threshold of the early
modern to the present.
The book explores the discursive and theoretical conditions for
conceptualizing the postethnic literary. It historicizes US
multicultural and postcolonial studies as institutionalized
discursive formations, which constitute a paratext that regulates
the reception of literary texts according to the paradigm of
representativeness. Rather than following that paradigm, the study
offers an alternative framework by rereading contemporary literary
texts for their investment in literary form. By means of
self-reflective intermedial transpositions, the writings of Sherman
Alexie, Chang-rae Lee, and Jamaica Kincaid insist upon a
differentiation between the representation of cultural sign systems
or subject positions and the dramatization of individual gestures
of authorship. As such, they form a postethnic literary
constellation, further probed in the epilogue of the study focused
on Dave Eggers.
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Hard Bodies (Paperback)
Ralph J. Poole, Florian Sedlmeier, Susanne Wegener
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R907
Discovery Miles 9 070
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Shrill, beefy, drilled - hard bodies populate pop culture and
science books alike. The essays in this volume trace the flexing
muscles of the hard body in various disciplines and spatio-temporal
contexts: from the medieval wooer in tights to the soldier in a
bombsuit, from sculpted marble bodies to the treacherous images of
German Terrormadels, from 19th century self-improvement manuals to
21st century technoporn, from Ballets Russes to Charlie's Angels,
from Afro-Brazilian male sleeping beauties to the black female war
machine. (Series: American Studies in Austria - Vol. 11)
This book reexamines the trope of the machine in the garden first
laid out by Leo Marx fifty years ago. Contributors explore the
lasting influence of this concept on American culture and the arts,
rereading it as a dialectic wherein nature is as much technologized
as technology is naturalized. Extending the relevance of Marx's
theory from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, they
examine filmic and literary representations of industrial,
bureaucratic, and digital gardens; explore its role in the
aftermath of the Civil War and of rural electrification during the
New Deal; its significance in landscape art as well as in ethnic
literatures; and discuss the historical premises and continued
impact of Marx's study.
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