{"product_id":"abjection-incorporated-9781478001898","title":"Abjection Incorporated","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExamining abjection in a range of visual and material culture, the contributors to \u003ci\u003eAbjection Incorporated\u003c\/i\u003e move beyond critiques of abjection as a punitive form of social death to theorizing how it has become a means to acquire political and cultural capital in the twenty-first century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Passionate, eye-opening, exciting! From Lena Dunham to Amy Schumer to Larry Clark and Louis C. K. (not to mention \u003ci\u003eMad Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e), who would have thought that forty years after Kristeva's \u003ci\u003ePowers of Horror\u003c\/i\u003e so much insight for our times could be discovered through the lens of abjection! Editors Maggie Hennefeld and Nicholas Sammond have contributed to and guided the production of a timely and unusually cohesive anthology.” -- Linda Williams, Professor Emerita, University of California, Berkeley\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eAbjection Incorporated\u003c\/i\u003e makes a strong case for the abject as an important political space for confrontations between identities assigned and performed. Even as many seek to displace the subject as a meaningful category of analysis and action, these essays demonstrate that the fundamental tension between the fragility of self and the abjection of otherness remains a viable and quite possibly unavoidable foundation for cultural theory and criticism.” -- Jeffrey Sconce, author of * The Technical Delusion: Electronics, Power, Insanity *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“In an unique way, \u003ci\u003eAbjection Incorporated\u003c\/i\u003e makes a compelling argument about the concept of abjection as a useful tool to understand our peculiar existences in a sensory and irrational way.... [It] strongly advocates for a more nuanced perspective than the usual post-structuralist binary opposition of pleasure and violence....”\u003c\/p\u003e -- Éric Falardeau * Jump Cut *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eAbjection Incorporated\u003c\/i\u003e succeeds in offering its readers a significant tool that helps to explain social, political, and cultural forces at work.... [T]he subject matter alone provides an important timely theoretical framework that can help make better sense of the competing reality spheres that have come to dominate the discourse over our present moment.” -- David Morton * Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television *\u003cbr\u003e“Comedy’s need to be miserable deeply complicates its relationship to power. \u003ci\u003eAbjection Incorporated \u003c\/i\u003econtributes essential scholarship to this historical and present problem.” -- Will Schmenner * Studies in American Humor *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  vii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Not It, or, The Abject Objection \/ Maggie Hennefeld and Nicholas Sammond  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Politics of Abjection \/ Sylvère Lotringer  33\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Abject Performances: Subjectivity, Identity, Individuality\u003cbr\u003e 2. Popular Abjection and Gendered Embodiment in South Korean Film Comedy \/ Michelle Cho  43\u003cbr\u003e 3. Precarious-Girl Comedy: Issa Rae, Lena Dunham, and Abjection Aesthetics \/ Rebecca Wanzo  64\u003cbr\u003e 4. Abject Feminism, Grotesque Comedy, and Apocalyptic Laughter on \u003ci\u003eInside Amy Schumer\u003c\/i\u003e \/ Maggie Hennefeld  86\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Abject Bodies: Humans, Animals, Objects\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Animal and the Animalistic: China's Late 1950s Socialist Satirical Comedy \/ Yiman Wang  115\u003cbr\u003e 6. Anticolonial Folly and the Reversals of Repatriation \/ Rijuta Mehta  140\u003cbr\u003e 7. Between Technology and Toy: The Talking Doll as Abject Artifact \/ Meredith A. Bak  164\u003cbr\u003e 8. Absolute Dismemberment: The Burlesque Natural History of Georges Bataille \/ James Leo Cahill  185\u003cbr\u003e 9. Why, an Abject Art \/ Mark Mulroney  208\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Abject Aesthetics: Structure, Form, System\u003cbr\u003e 10. A Matter of Fluids: EC Comics and the Vernacular Abject \/ Nicholas Sammond  217\u003cbr\u003e 11. Spit * Light * Spunk: Larry Clark, an Aesthetic of Frankness \/ Eugenie Brinkema  243\u003cbr\u003e 12. A Series of Ugly Feelings: Fabulation and Abjection in Shōjo Manga \/ Thomas Lamarre  268\u003cbr\u003e 13. Powers of Comedy, or, The Abject Dialectics of \u003ci\u003eLouie\u003c\/i\u003e \/ Rob King  291\u003cbr\u003e Contributors  321\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408972325207,"sku":"9781478001898","price":98.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478001898.jpg?v=1730504917","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/abjection-incorporated-9781478001898","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}