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"Biopolitics, Materiality and Meaning constitutes a literary-critical breath of fresh air, insofar as it takes contemporary biopolitics - with its primary emphasis on the post-human emergence of new materialist force - onto the terrain of modernist drama, putting the performativity of matter literally center stage.-- ""Jeffrey T. Nealon, Penn State University"" It is one of biopolitical reflection's most significant contemporary blindspots: what might theater have to tell us about the return of the immunitarian paradigm set in motion by the event of Covid-19? In this remarkable study, Professor Fraunhofer employs an avowedly feminist reading of gender to challenge ontological isolation, patriarchy and fascism in four male authors. Among the many highlights of Biopolitics, Materiality and Meaning in Modern European Drama is how Fraunhofer updates Kristeva's notion of abjection to offer powerfully prescient readings of contagion and performance. The result is a masterful account of how the modern stage generates and confounds modern immunitary boundaries.-- ""Timothy Campbell, Cornell University"""

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Hedwig Fraunhofer, Professor of French and German in the Department of World Languages & Cultures, Georgia College.

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