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Consumerism, Waste, and Re-Use in Twentieth-Century Fiction Rachele Dini

Consumerism, Waste, and Re-Use in Twentieth-Century Fiction By Rachele Dini

Consumerism, Waste, and Re-Use in Twentieth-Century Fiction by Rachele Dini


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This book examines manufactured waste and remaindered humans in literary critiques of capitalism by twentieth-century writers associated with the historical avant-garde and their descendants.

Consumerism, Waste, and Re-Use in Twentieth-Century Fiction Summary

Consumerism, Waste, and Re-Use in Twentieth-Century Fiction: Legacies of the Avant-Garde by Rachele Dini

This book examines manufactured waste and remaindered humans in literary critiques of capitalism by twentieth-century writers associated with the historical avant-garde and their descendants. Building on recent work in new materialism and waste studies, Rachele Dini reads waste as a process or phase amenable to interruption. From an initial exploration of waste and re-use in three Surrealist texts by Giorgio de Chirico, Andre Breton, and Mina Loy, Dini traces the conceptualization of waste in the writing of Samuel Beckett, Donald Barthelme, J.G. Ballard, William Gaddis, and Don DeLillo. In exploring the relationship between waste, capitalism, and literary experimentation, this book shows that the legacy of the historical avant-garde is bound up with an enduring faith in the radical potential of waste. The first study to focus specifically on waste in the twentieth-century imagination, this is a valuable contribution to the expanding field of waste studies.

About Rachele Dini

Rachele Dini teaches at the Foundation for International Education and in the English Department at University College London, UK. She has a BA Hons from Cambridge University, an MA from King's College London, and a PhD from University College London, UK.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

List of illustrations

Introduction

The commodity

Waste and recuperation

Human waste

Symbols of transience and change

The case for the novel, and for descendants of the avant-garde

From scavenging to window-shopping

Chapter overviews

The case for pursuing this unattractive occupation

Chapter One

In search of an epiphany: Redeeming waste and irrupting into the everyday

The enigmatic side of beings and things: Giorgio de Chirico's Hebdomeros

Quite unexpected, quite improbable: Andre Breton's Nadja

Human waste and the aesthetics of the economically nude: Mina Loy's Insel

Chapter Two

Samuel Beckett's : Human waste in

The Trilogy, Texts for Nothing, and How it I

[A]ll these questions of worth and value: Partial inventories, failing bodies

[I]n the rubbish dump: Figurations of human waste

[S]omewhere someone is uttering: Dwelling and speaking in waste

Chapter Three

Waste in Donald Barthelme, J.G Ballard, and William Gaddis

The writing of dreck: Donald Barthelme's Snow White

Things playing a more important part than people: Ballard's urban disaster trilogy

What America's all about, waste disposal and all: William Gaddis' JR

Chapter Four

Most of our longings go unfulfilled:

DeLillo's historiographical readings of landfills and nuclear fallout

Garbage for 20 years

Waste is the secret history: Reading the past

Longing on a large scale: Nostalgia, collecting and waste

The biggest secrets: Fresh Kills, Consumerism and the Cold War

[A] form of counterhistory: Waste and language

Conclusion

There lies a darker narrative: Pynchon's Bleeding Edge

The only truthful thing civilisation produced: Jonathan Miles' Want Not

There's always [an oil spill] happening: Tom McCarthy's Satin Island

The future of waste

Bibliography

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NPB9781137590619
9781137590619
1137590610
Consumerism, Waste, and Re-Use in Twentieth-Century Fiction: Legacies of the Avant-Garde by Rachele Dini
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Hardback
Palgrave Macmillan
2016-10-22
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