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Ecstatic consumption : the spectacle of global dystopia in contemporary American literature / by Pavlina Radia.
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Radia, Pavlina
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English
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Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.
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vi, 256 pages ; 22 cm
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PS229 .R33 2016
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Dystopias in literature
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Consumption (Economics) in literature
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American fiction
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21st century
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History and criticism
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American fiction
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20th century
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Summary note
While modernity aspired to "fix" radical alienation through aesthetics by assigning an ethical value to narratives, contemporary literature and the arts are no longer immune to the impact of commodity culture amplified by globalization. In the world of commodity, corporate logic, and cyborgs, the very notion of identity is frequently turned into a spectacle. Yet, it is also simultaneously mobilized by the search for what Jean Baudrillard describes as the "ecstatic" form that materializes aesthetics. Ecstatic Consumption: The Spectacle of Global Dystopia in Contemporary American Literature investigates not only how these transformations affect gender, racial, and class relations, but also how they impact the representation of historical events.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-232) and index.
Contents
Introduction: theorizing ecstatic consumption and the spectacle of global dystopia in contemporary American literature
Part I. The spectacle of consumption
The ecstatic gaze in Don DeLillo's The body artist and Point Omega
Life in the hills: sex, money, and simulacra in Jane Smiley's Ten days in the hills
Posthuman identity and the corporate fortress in Marge Piercy's He, she and it
Part II. The ecstasy of (multi)culturalism
"Dark as chocolate": (multi)cultural difference and global appetite in Diana Abu-Jaber's The crescent
Racing alienation and the politics of violence in Chang-Rae Lee's Native speaker
Part III. The global appetite for dystopia
Consuming the Holocaust: the postmemory re-production of human trauma and the fire of formal indigestion in Shalom Auslander's Hope: a tragedy
History as spectacle: 9/11 and the economics of suffering in Alissa Torres' American widow
"The zero point; or, a new beginning".
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ISBN
1443897965 (hardcover)
9781443897969 (hardcover)
LCCN
2020415941
OCLC
966378298
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