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Author:   Coco d'Hont
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.240kg
ISBN:  

9780367664534

ISBN 10:   0367664534
Pages:   188
Publication Date:   30 September 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Preface 1 Dead in the Water? Reading Transgression as a Central Social Mechanism Moving Beyond Marginality: (Re)defining Transgression A Perverse Society? Transgression and American Culture The Body of Work: What Is Transgressive Fiction? A History of Transgression: Case Studies 2 Too Much Filth to Handle: Pornography and Capitalism in Hogg Dirt, Sex and Violence: Breaking Through the Surface Wandering Around the Wasteland: An Alternative America Constructing Mainstream Marginality: Racism, Homophobia and Misogyny The (S)innocent Child: The Nuclear Family and Morality 3 Saving the West: Environmentalism and Conservatism in The Monkey Wrench Gang A Modern-Day Thoreau: An Environmentalist History Maintenance through Destruction: Saving the American West Reinventing the Vigilante: Masculinity as Activist Vehicle The West as a Playing Field: Narrative Distortion and Critical Exploration 4 A Painful Past: Rememory, Monstrosity and Intersectionality in Beloved A Ghost From the Past: Uncomfortable Histories Monsters and Reconstruction: Learning from the Past Half-formed Things: Building Gendered and Ethnic Identities Under Construction: Fluid Freedoms 5 The Perfect Neoliberal: The Corporate and the Corporeal in American Psycho Consuming Objects: Commodity Fetishism and the Corporeal The Power of the Corporeal: Corporate Instability Chasing the Cipher: Bodily Violation as Critical Interrogation Reinventing Neoliberalism: Crisis and Regeneration 6 Wild Men: Freedom and Masculinity in Fight Club Infected Masculinity: Reforming Capitalism through the Male Body Infecting Society: Project Mayhem as Social Disease Rethinking the Ethics of Physicality: Gender and the Politics of Illness The End of Freedom? The Return of the Limit 7 ""This Is Not an Exit"": The (Non) Death of Transgression From Safety Valve to Critical Exploration: Transgressive Fiction as a Fictional Lab The Mind-Body Problem: Connecting Ideology and Physicality Moving beyond Boundaries: Transgressive Fiction After the Turn of the Century No Future? The Continued Importance of Transgressive Fiction Index"

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Is transgression only about breaking the rules, or is it also creative and reconstitutive, part of a perpetual reconfiguration of American culture? Is it about style, or is it about ideas? Coco d'Hont, in her study of American fiction since the 1960s, helps us see transgression as violation, creation, and ideology. -Christopher Phelps, University of Nottingham Transgression as a concept involves so much more than the cliche of that which is outre or titillating, usually understood in sexual or aesthetic terms. At last, with Extreme States, we have a monograph that explores the ways in which the crossing of borders, boundaries, and categories is both central to much recent American fiction, and key to understanding the contemporary American ideological imaginary. -Lisa Downing, University of Birmingham

"Is transgression only about breaking the rules, or is it also creative and reconstitutive, part of a perpetual reconfiguration of American culture? Is it about style, or is it about ideas? Coco d’Hont, in her study of American fiction since the 1960s, helps us see transgression as violation, creation, and ideology. —Christopher Phelps, University of Nottingham ""Transgression as a concept involves so much more than the cliché of that which is outré or titillating, usually understood in sexual or aesthetic terms. At last, with Extreme States, we have a monograph that explores the ways in which the crossing of borders, boundaries, and categories is both central to much recent American fiction, and key to understanding the contemporary American ideological imaginary."" —Lisa Downing, University of Birmingham"

Author Information

Coco d’Hont is an independent scholar who researches contemporary American fiction and popular culture. She holds a PhD from the University of East Anglia (UK). Recent projects include explorations of Marilyn Manson, published in the European Journal of American Studies, Mary Harron’s American Psycho, and Chuck Palahniuk’s post-9/11 fiction.

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