Genre fission : a new discourse practice for cultural studies / Marleen S. Barr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barr, Marleen S.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--20th century--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Postmodernism (Literature)--United States.

Postmodernism--United States.

Discourse analysis, Literary.

Culture--Philosophy.

Literary form.

United States--Civilization--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (291 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What do Amsterdam prostitutes, NASA astronauts, cross-dressing texts, and Star Trek characters have in common? In Genre Fission, Marleen Barr wittily and eccentrically revitalizes cultural and literary theory by examining the points where such vastly different categories meet, converge, and reemerge as something new.

Contents:

Introduction "The Grand Mix" or Who Wears the White Hats When the Barbie Liberation Organization Strikes Back?; 1 Bridging the Dead father's canonical divide Max Apple, Saul Bellow, Edgar Allan Poe, and Lynn Redgrave Form a Textual Cross- Dresser Support Group; 2 "Sll good things" The End of ""Star Trek: The Next Generation,"" the End of Camelot, and the End of the Tale about Woman as Handmaid to Patriarchyas- Superman; 3 Shutting the bestial mouth Confessions of Male Clones and Girl Gangs

4 Night watch in amsterdam's red light district Prostitutes / Dutch Windows / Utopian and Dystopian Gazes5 Los York / New Angeles "New York, New York, a Helluva Town" Sings "I Wish They All Could Be California Girls"; 6 American middle-class males mark the moon Retrospectively Reading the Apollo Program or Lorena Bobbitt vs. the ""Saturn 5""; 7 Women "churtening" via the cha cha Ursula K. Le Guin and Hispanic- American Authors Write to the Same Rhythm; 8 Wrapping the reichstag vs. rapping racism or "a colored kind of white people" Black /White / Jew / Gentile

9 Playing with time The Holocaust as "A Different Universe of Discourse"Epilogue: Discourse as Black Hole- and as Liberated Light; Notes; Works Cited; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-261) and index.

ISBN:

9781587292712

1587292718

OCLC:

50322318