UID:
almafu_9959677757802883
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
1-4780-0341-3
Content:
"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"--
Note:
Includes index.
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Not It, or the Abject Objection / Maggie Hennefeld and Nic Sammond. -- The Politics of Abjection / Sylvère Lotringer. -- Part I: Abject Performances: Subjectivity, Identity, Individuality -- Popular Abjection and Gendered Embodiment in South Korean Girl Comedy / Michelle Cho -- Precarious-Girl Comedy: Issa Rae, Lena Dunham, and Abject Aesthetics / Rebecca Wanzo. -- Abject Feminism, Grotesque Comedy, and Apocalyptic Laughter / Maggie Hennefeld. -- Part II: Abject Bodies: Humans, Animals, Objects. -- The Animal and the Animalistic in China?s Late China?s Late 1950s Socialist Satirical Comedy / Yiman Wang -- Anticolonial Folly and the Reversals of Repatriation / Rijuta Mehta -- Between Technology and Toy: The Talking Doll as Abject Artifact / Meredith Bak -- Absolute Dismemberment: The Burlesque Natural History of Georges Bataille / James Leo Cahill -- Why, An Abject Art / Marc Mulroney -- Abject Aesthetics: Structure, Form, System -- A Matter of Fluids: EC Comics and Vernacular Abjection / Nic Sammond -- Spit * Light * Spunk: Larry Clark, an Aesthetic of Frankness / Eubgenie Brinkema -- Abjection Serialized: Fabulation and Abjection in Shojo Manga / Thomas Lamarre -- Between the Abject and the Absurd: The Comic Sources of Louie / Rob King.
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Issued also in print.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4780-0302-2
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4780-0189-5
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781478003410
