Atopian limits : questions of self, complexity, and contingency in postmodern American narrative.

Moncef, Salah el-:

ISBN 10: 3906768163 / ISBN 13: 9783906768168

Published by Frankfurt, Bern: Lang, 2002

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XVI, 203 S. Ein gutes und sauberes Exemplar. - Figures in (De)composition: The Genesis of the Paradoxical Self in Paul Auster's Moon Palace -- (A Fuzzy Grammar of Subjectivity) -- Atopian Self and (Non)identity in Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo 's Nest (A General Politics of Otherness) -- Sounding the Black Box: Linear Reproduction and Chance Bifurcations in John Updike's Rabbit at Rest (The System as Paradoxical Totality) -- Lecter Knows Worst: Marginal Value(s) and the Law of Series in Thomas Harris's The Silence of the Lambs (The Sexual Economy of Individualism) -- Postscript Two Apocalyptic Scenarios: That Alien Thing Bugging the System: Atopian Limits and the Model of the Paradoxical Totality in Gore Vidal's Duluth -- Mestizas and Cyborgs R Us: Ontological Nomadism and the Transnational Public Sphere in Kathy Acker's Empire of the Senseless. ISBN 9783906768168 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 405.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Atopian limits : questions of self, complexity, and contingency in postmodern American narrative.
• Publisher: Frankfurt, Bern: Lang
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3906768163
• ISBN 13: 9783906768168
• Binding: Originalhardcover.
• Condition: Gut
• Weight: 405 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Amerikanistik

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Synopsis

This comprehensive study of postmodern subjectivity explores some of the most significant challenges confronting the individual in the third millennium – from the role of ethnic difference and immigration in the public sphere, to questions of sexual politics in the work- and marketplace, to the effects of technological interference with human and animal bodies, to the increasing unpredictability of global economics. What emerges from the analysis of these issues is a work of unique foresight, clarity, and scholarly integrity – a relentlessly meticulous scrutiny of our complex and uncertain world. In its treatment of the most pressing questions of our times, Atopian Limits is a gripping attempt to anticipate and understand the different forces of evolution looming on the horizon of our socioeconomic destiny, the future waves of change coming upon us fraught with their catastrophic as well as their emancipatory possibilities.

About the Author

The Author: Salah el Moncef is Associate Professor of American literature at the University of Nantes, France. From 1988 to 1993 he was a Fulbright fellow at Indiana University, Bloomington. He has written several short stories along with many essays on modernist and postmodern literature.