This study explores the concept of fetishism as a strategy for expressing social and political discontent in American literature, and for negotiating traumatic experiences particular to the second half of the twentieth century. INDICE: - PART I: FETISHISM FROM THEORY TO FICTION - A Parallax History ofFetish Theory - No Ideas but in Fetishes: Reed's Mumbo Jumbo - PART II: FICTIONS OF THE FEMALE FETISH - Queering Lesbian Fetishism in Pynchon's V. - Resighting Gender Theory: Butler's Lesbian Phallus in Acker's Pussy - PART III: POMO-PORNOLOGIES - Domesticating Fantasy: S/M Fetishism and Coover's Spanking the Maid - Narrating the Death Drive: Automotive SinthoMosexuality and John Hawkes's Travesty - Conclusion: Longing on a Large Scale: Underworld and Europe Central
- ISBN: 978-0-230-10290-3
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 256
- Fecha Publicación: 03/09/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés