The significance of domestic time-saving electrical appliances in 20th-century American literature is given unique attention in this wide-ranging study. This book examines the literary depiction of refrigerators, vacuum cleaners, oven ranges, washing machines, dryers, dishwashers, toasters, blenders, standing and hand-held mixers, and microwave ovens across a range of literary genres and forms published between the early 1910s, as Fordism and Taylorism entered the home, and the 2010s, as contemporary writers consider the enduring material and spiritual effects of these objects into the 21st century.
Rachele Dini argues that literary scholarship has too long ignored the influence of electrification on literary form, and of domestic electrification on the literary representation of home and on shifting understandings of the relationship between the home, body, and nation. Dini further argues that the appropriation and subversion of the rhetoric of domestic electrification comprised a crucial, but overlooked, element in specific twentieth-century literary forms and genres including Beat literature, Black American literature, second-wave feminist fiction, science fiction, and postmodernist fiction. All-Electric" Narratives thus demonstrates the extent to which American writers over the last century have enlisted appliances to raise questions about gender norms and sexuality, racial exclusion and erasure, class anxieties, the ramifications of mechanisation and the potential replacement of humans by robots, the perils and possibilities of conformity, the limitations of patriotism, and the inevitable fallacy of utopian thinking-while both shaping and radically disrupting the literary forms in which they operated.
Автор: Edited by Betsy Huang , Victor Roman Mendoza Название: Asian American Literature in Transition, 1996–2020 ISBN: 1108830846 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108830843 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 14731.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This volume examines the concerns of contemporary Asian American literatures in neoliberal times. The four sections make the literary, political, and identity-based concerns of the essays, and the works they examine, easily navigable for students and scholars alike.
Описание: Press Eject and Give Me the Tape: Dialogues, Interviews, and Exchanges 2001-2020 is a collection of two decades of interviews, as well as a collaboration between the painter and writer Bradley Rubenstein and over 35 contemporary painters, sculptors, photographers, and performance and video artists.
Автор: Eric Falci, Paige Reynolds Название: Irish Literature in Transition: 1980–2020: Volume 6 ISBN: 1108474047 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108474047 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 17266.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This is among the very first collections for graduates and researchers to track Irish and Northern Irish writing across the twentieth century`s long turn, and the remarkable transitions that accompanied it. It revisits major writers and texts, providing path-making accounts of emergent figures through a range of perspectives.
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