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BL
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586696
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GBB4B7389b415915
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GBB4B7866b415915
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| Main Entry
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Breu, Christopher
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| Title & Author
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Insistence of the material : : literature in the age of biopolitics /\ Christopher Breu
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| Page. NO
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x, 264 pages ;; 23 cm
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| ISBN
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9780816688913 (hc : alk. paper)
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: 0816688915 (hc : alk. paper)
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: 9780816689460 (pb : alk. paper)
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: 0816689466 (pb : alk. paper)
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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Introduction: theorizing materiality in the age of biopolitics -- The novel enfleshed: Naked lunch and the literature of materiality -- Vital objects: materiality and biopolitics in Thomas Pynchon's V -- The late-modern unconscious: the object world of J.G. Ballard's Crash -- Disinterring the real: embodiment, AIDS, and biomedicalization in Dodie Bellamy's The letters of Mina Harker -- Almanac of the living: thanatopolitics and an alternative biopolitics in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the dead -- Conclusion: tarrying with the material
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American fiction-- 20th century-- History and criticism
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English fiction-- 20th century-- History and criticism
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Materialism in literature
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Biopolitics
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| Dewey Classification
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813/.5409
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| LC Classification
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PS374.M395B84 2014
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