Consumerism, waste, and re-use in twentieth-century fiction : legacies of the avant-garde

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Consumerism, waste, and re-use in twentieth-century fiction : legacies of the avant-garde

Rachele Dini

Palgrave Macmillan, c2016

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-235) and index

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内容説明

This book examines manufactured waste and remaindered humans in literary critiques of capitalism by twentieth-century writers associated with the historical avant-garde and their descendants. Building on recent work in new materialism and waste studies, Rachele Dini reads waste as a process or phase amenable to interruption. From an initial exploration of waste and re-use in three Surrealist texts by Giorgio de Chirico, Andre Breton, and Mina Loy, Dini traces the conceptualization of waste in the writing of Samuel Beckett, Donald Barthelme, J.G. Ballard, William Gaddis, and Don DeLillo. In exploring the relationship between waste, capitalism, and literary experimentation, this book shows that the legacy of the historical avant-garde is bound up with an enduring faith in the radical potential of waste. The first study to focus specifically on waste in the twentieth-century imagination, this is a valuable contribution to the expanding field of waste studies.

目次

Table of Contents Acknowledgements List of illustrations Introduction The commodity Waste and recuperation Human waste Symbols of transience and change The case for the novel, and for descendants of the avant-garde From scavenging to window-shopping Chapter overviews The case for pursuing "this unattractive occupation" Chapter One In search of an epiphany: Redeeming waste and irrupting into the everyday "The enigmatic side of beings and things": Giorgio de Chirico's Hebdomeros "Quite unexpected, quite improbable": Andre Breton's Nadja Human waste and the aesthetics of the "economically nude": Mina Loy's Insel Chapter Two Samuel Beckett's : Human waste in The Trilogy, Texts for Nothing, and How it I "[A]ll these questions of worth and value": Partial inventories, failing bodies "[I]n the rubbish dump": Figurations of human waste "[S]omewhere someone is uttering": Dwelling and speaking in waste Chapter Three Waste in Donald Barthelme, J.G Ballard, and William Gaddis The writing of "dreck": Donald Barthelme's Snow White "Things playing a more important part than people": Ballard's urban disaster trilogy "What America's all about, waste disposal and all": William Gaddis' JR Chapter Four "Most of our longings go unfulfilled": DeLillo's historiographical readings of landfills and nuclear fallout "Garbage for 20 years" "Waste is the secret history": Reading the past "Longing on a large scale": Nostalgia, collecting and waste "The biggest secrets": Fresh Kills, Consumerism and the Cold War " [A] form of counterhistory": Waste and language Conclusion "There lies a darker narrative": Pynchon's Bleeding Edge "The only truthful thing civilisation produced": Jonathan Miles' Want Not "There's always [an oil spill] happening": Tom McCarthy's Satin Island The future of waste Bibliography

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