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Anti-Apocalypse : exercises in genealogical criticism / Lee Quinby.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Quinby, Lee, 1946-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--20th century--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
- American literature.
- Apocalyptic literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
- Apocalyptic literature.
- Feminism and literature--United States--History--20th century.
- Feminism and literature.
- Literature and society--United States--History--20th century.
- Literature and society.
- Postmodernism (Literature)--United States.
- Postmodernism (Literature).
- Genealogy in literature.
- United States--Civilization--20th century.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (238 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1994.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Drawing on feminist and Foucauldian theory, Quinby offers a powerful critique of the millenarian rhetoric that pervades American culture. Tracing the deployment of power through systems of alliance, sexuality, and technology, the author promotes a variety of critical stances-genealogical feminism, an ethics of the flesh, and "pissed criticism"-as challenges to apocalyptic claims for absolute truth and universal morality.
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Apocalyptic Fits; Part I. Genealogy Now; 1. Eu(jean)ics: The New Fashion in Power; 2. Genealogical Feminism: A Politic Way of Looking; 3. Philosophy Today: Not-for-Prophet Thought; Part II. The Re-Creations and Recreations of Adam and Eve: Reading Modernist Texts in Postmodern Contexts; 4. Conceiving the New Man: Henry Adams and the Birth of Ironic Apocalypse; 5. ""Woman Got de Key"": Zora Neale Hurston and Resistance to Apocalypse; Part III. A Book of Revelry: The Decline and Fall of the American Empire
- 6. Urination and Civilization: Practicing Pissed Criticism7. Resistance on the Home Front: Re(con)figuring Home Space as a Practice of Freedom; Coda: On Waco: A Monday Morning Wake-Up Call; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-196) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-8520-7
- OCLC:
- 476093505
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