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The Abject of Desire
The Aestheticization of the Unaesthetic in Contemporary Literature and Culture
Series: - GENUS: Gender in Modern Culture, Volume: 9
The Abject of Desire approaches the aestheticization of the unaesthetic via a range of different topics and genres in twentieth-century Anglophone literature and culture. The âexperience of disgustâ, which Winfried Menninghaus describes as âan acute crisis of self-preservationâ, is correlated with conceptualizations of gender in theories of the abject/abjection. In view of this general crisis of identity in the experience of disgust, the contributions to this volume discuss examples of the aestheticization of the unaesthetic in cultural representations and locate conceptual (re)codings of the body, gender, and identity with regard to the abject as an immediate and uncompromising experience on the one hand, and a social and political phenomenon on the other. Considering a variety of cultural narratives by writers as diverse as Samuel Delany, Sarah Schulman, Joyce Carol Oates, Leslie Marmon Silko, Paul Magrs, J. G. Ballard, Stevie Smith, T. C. Boyle, Joseph Conrad, Poppy Z. Brite, and Will Self, by film directors John Waters and Peter Greenaway, playwrights Girish Karnad and Mahesh Dattani, and âbody artistâ Gunter von Hagens, the contributors to this volume scrutinize different implications of the ambivalent concept of the abject/abjection.
Konstanze KUTZBACH and Monika MUELLER: Introduction
Hanjo BERRESSEM: On the Matter of Abjection
Paulina PALMER: Queer Transformations: Renegotiating the Abject in Contemporary Anglo-American Lesbian Fiction
Nilufer BHARUCHA: The Bhibhitsa Rasa in Anglophone Indian Cultural Discourse: The Repugnant and Distasteful at the Level of Gender, Race, and Caste
Susana ARAÃJO: The Gothic-Grotesque of Haunted: Joyce Carol Oatesâs Tales of Abjection
Dorothea FISCHER-HORNUNG: âNow we know that gay men are just men after allâ: Abject Sexualities in Leslie Marmon Silkoâs Almanac of the Dead
Tatjana PAVLOV: Consuming the Body: Literal and Metaphorical Cannibalism in Peter Greenawayâs Films
Andrea GUTENBERG: Shape-Shifters from the Wilderness: Werewolves Roaming the Twentieth Century
Konstanze KUTZBACH: The Two-â¦, One-â¦, None-Sex Model: The Flesh(-)Made Machine in Herman Melvilleâs âThe Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maidsâ and J. G. Ballardâs Crash
Ruth BAUMERT: Fear, Melancholy, and Loss in the Poetry of Stevie Smith
Sylvia MAYER: American Environmentalism and Encounters with the Abject: T. Coraghessan Boyleâs A Friend of the Earth
Russell WEST: Abject Cannibalism: Anthropophagic Poetics in Conrad, White, and Tennant â Towards a Critique of Julia Kristevaâs Theory of Abjection
Monika MUELLER: âA Wet Festival of Scarletâ: Poppy Z. Briteâs (Un)Aesthetics of Murder
Alison GOELLER: Interior Landscapes: Anatomy Art and the Work of Gunther von Hagens
Frank LAY: Violence, Transgression, and the Fun Factor: The Imagined Atrocities of Will Selfâs My Idea of Fun
Notes on Contributors
Hanjo BERRESSEM: On the Matter of Abjection
Paulina PALMER: Queer Transformations: Renegotiating the Abject in Contemporary Anglo-American Lesbian Fiction
Nilufer BHARUCHA: The Bhibhitsa Rasa in Anglophone Indian Cultural Discourse: The Repugnant and Distasteful at the Level of Gender, Race, and Caste
Susana ARAÃJO: The Gothic-Grotesque of Haunted: Joyce Carol Oatesâs Tales of Abjection
Dorothea FISCHER-HORNUNG: âNow we know that gay men are just men after allâ: Abject Sexualities in Leslie Marmon Silkoâs Almanac of the Dead
Tatjana PAVLOV: Consuming the Body: Literal and Metaphorical Cannibalism in Peter Greenawayâs Films
Andrea GUTENBERG: Shape-Shifters from the Wilderness: Werewolves Roaming the Twentieth Century
Konstanze KUTZBACH: The Two-â¦, One-â¦, None-Sex Model: The Flesh(-)Made Machine in Herman Melvilleâs âThe Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maidsâ and J. G. Ballardâs Crash
Ruth BAUMERT: Fear, Melancholy, and Loss in the Poetry of Stevie Smith
Sylvia MAYER: American Environmentalism and Encounters with the Abject: T. Coraghessan Boyleâs A Friend of the Earth
Russell WEST: Abject Cannibalism: Anthropophagic Poetics in Conrad, White, and Tennant â Towards a Critique of Julia Kristevaâs Theory of Abjection
Monika MUELLER: âA Wet Festival of Scarletâ: Poppy Z. Briteâs (Un)Aesthetics of Murder
Alison GOELLER: Interior Landscapes: Anatomy Art and the Work of Gunther von Hagens
Frank LAY: Violence, Transgression, and the Fun Factor: The Imagined Atrocities of Will Selfâs My Idea of Fun
Notes on Contributors