{"product_id":"9783030465292","title":"American Literature Readings in the 21st Century: American Sh*t","description":"\u003ch1\u003eAmerican Literature Readings in the 21st Century: American Sh*t\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eFoltz, Mary C.\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eContemporary American Literature and Excremental Culture: American Sh*t\u003c\/i\u003e analyzes post-1960 scatological novels that utilize representations of human waste to address pressing issues, including pollution of waterways, environmental racism, and militarism. Primarily examining postmodern parody, the book shows the value of aesthetic renderings of sanitary engineering for composting ideologies that fuel a ruinous impact on the world. Drawing on late twentieth-century psychoanalytic thinkers Norman O. Brown, Frantz Fanon, and Leo Bersani, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Sh*t \u003c\/i\u003eshows the continued relevance of psychoanalytic interpretations of contemporary fiction for understanding post-45 authors’ engagement with waste. Ultimately, the monograph reveals how novelists Ishmael Reed, Jonathan Franzen, Gloria Naylor, Don DeLillo, and Samuel R. Delany critique subjects who abnegate their status as waste-producing beings and bring readers back to embrace\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinner of the 2019 Northeast Modern Language Association Book Award for Literary Criticism of English Language Literature\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Palgrave Macmillan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2020-10-09\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9783030465292\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-3-030-46530-8\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 210cm x148cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 272\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer International Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45383555383436,"sku":"9783030465292","price":49.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783030465292.jpg?v=1775923132","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9783030465292","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}