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Abjection incorporated : mediating the politics of pleasure & violence

Hennefeld, Maggie, 1984- author, Sammond, Nicholas, 1960- author

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\"From the films of Larry Clark, to the feminist comedy of Amy Schumer, to the fall of Louis CK, comedic, graphic, and violent moments of abjection have permeated twentieth- and twenty-first-century social and political discourse. The contributors to Abjection Incorporated move beyond simple critiques of abjection as a punitive form of social death, illustrating how it has become a contested form of political and cultural capital--empowering for some but oppressive for others. Escaping abjection's usual confines of psychoanalysis and aesthetic modernism, core to theories of abjection by thinkers such as Kristeva and Bataille, the contributors examine a range of media, including literature, photography, film, television, talking dolls, comics, and manga. Whether analyzing how comedic abjection can help mobilize feminist politics or how expressions of abjection inflect class, race, and gender hierarchies, the contributors demonstrate the importance of competing uses of abjection to contemporary society and politics. They emphasize abjection's role in circumscribing the boundaries of the human, and how the threats abjection poses to the self and other, far from simply negative, open up possibilities for radically new politics\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Subject: Critical theory. / Abjection in motion pictures. / Abjection in literature. / Political culture. / Marginality, Social Political aspects. / Feminist theory.
• ISBN: 9781478001898, 9781478003021

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
HM480.A254 2020	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE