Contemporary American literature and excremental culture : American sh*t /

'Foltzs study of human waste in Ishmael Reed, Thomas Pynchon, Gloria Naylor, Don DeLillo, Jonathan Franzen, and Samuel Delany convincingly demonstrates their scatological games to be premised on contesting psychoanalytic theorys complicity in the upholding of white hegemony, heteronormativity,...

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Main Author: Foltz, Mary C. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]
Series:American literature readings in the 21st century.
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