The Abject of Desire: The Aestheticization of the Unaesthetic in Contemporary Literature and CultureBRILL, 2007/01/01 - 312 ページ The Abject of Desire approaches the aestheticization of the unaesthetic via a range of different topics and genres in twentieth-century Anglophone literature and culture. The “experience of disgust”, which Winfried Menninghaus describes as “an acute crisis of self-preservation”, is correlated with conceptualizations of gender in theories of the abject/abjection. In view of this general crisis of identity in the experience of disgust, the contributions to this volume discuss examples of the aestheticization of the unaesthetic in cultural representations and locate conceptual (re)codings of the body, gender, and identity with regard to the abject as an immediate and uncompromising experience on the one hand, and a social and political phenomenon on the other. Considering a variety of cultural narratives by writers as diverse as Samuel Delany, Sarah Schulman, Joyce Carol Oates, Leslie Marmon Silko, Paul Magrs, J. G. Ballard, Stevie Smith, T. C. Boyle, Joseph Conrad, Poppy Z. Brite, and Will Self, by film directors John Waters and Peter Greenaway, playwrights Girish Karnad and Mahesh Dattani, and “body artist” Gunter von Hagens, the contributors to this volume scrutinize different implications of the ambivalent concept of the abject/abjection. |
目次
Introduction | 7 |
On the Matter of Abjection | 19 |
Renegotiating the Abject in Contemporary AngloAmerican Lesbian Fiction | 49 |
The Repugnant and Distasteful at the Level of Gender Race and Caste | 69 |
Joyce Carol Oatess Tales of Abjection | 89 |
Abject Sexualities in Leslie Marmon Silkos Almanac of the Dead | 107 |
Literal and Metaphorical Cannibalism in Peter Greenaways Films | 129 |
Werewolves Roaming the Twentieth Century | 149 |
Fear Melancholy and Loss in the Poetry of Stevie Smith | 197 |
T Coraghessan Boyles A Friend of the Earth | 221 |
Anthropophagic Poetics in Conrad White and Tennant Towards a Critique of Julia Kristevas Theory of Abjection | 235 |
Poppy Z Brites UnAesthetics of Murder | 255 |
Anatomy Art and the Work of Gunther von Hagens | 271 |
The Imagined Atrocities of Will Selfs My Idea of Fun | 291 |
Notes on Contributors | 309 |
The FleshMade Machine in Herman Melvilles The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids and J G Ballards Crash | 181 |
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