{"product_id":"extreme-states-the-evolution-of-american-transgressive-fiction-19602000-9780367664534","title":"Extreme States The Evolution of American","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eExtreme States \u003c\/i\u003etraces the evolution of American transgressive fiction from the 1960s to 2000, exploring how transgressive fiction reflects, exaggerates and critically interrogates how central American ideologies are perpetually (re)constructed in its extra-textual context.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIs transgression only about breaking the rules, or is it also creative and reconstitutive, part of a perpetual reconfiguration of American culture? Is it about style, or is it about ideas? Coco d’Hont, in her study of American fiction since the 1960s, helps us see transgression as violation, creation, \u003ci\u003eand \u003c\/i\u003eideology.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Christopher Phelps, University of Nottingham\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Transgression as a concept involves so much more than the cliché of that which is outré or titillating, usually understood in sexual or aesthetic terms. At last, with \u003ci\u003eExtreme States\u003c\/i\u003e, we have a monograph that explores the ways in which the crossing of borders, boundaries, and categories is both central to much recent American fiction, and key to understanding the contemporary American ideological imaginary.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Lisa Downing, University of Birmingham\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 Dead in the Water? Reading Transgression as a Central Social Mechanism \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoving Beyond Marginality: (Re)defining Transgression\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Perverse Society? Transgression and American Culture\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Body of Work: What Is Transgressive Fiction? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA History of Transgression: Case Studies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 Too Much Filth to Handle: Pornography and Capitalism in \u003ci\u003eHogg \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDirt, Sex and Violence: Breaking Through the Surface\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWandering Around the Wasteland: An Alternative America\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConstructing Mainstream Marginality: Racism, Homophobia and Misogyny\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe (S)innocent Child: The Nuclear Family and Morality\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 Saving the West: Environmentalism and Conservatism in \u003ci\u003eThe Monkey Wrench Gang\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Modern-Day Thoreau: An Environmentalist History \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaintenance through Destruction: Saving the American West\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReinventing the Vigilante: Masculinity as Activist Vehicle\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe West as a Playing Field: Narrative Distortion and Critical Exploration\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 A Painful Past: Rememory, Monstrosity and Intersectionality in \u003ci\u003eBeloved\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Ghost From the Past: Uncomfortable Histories\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMonsters and Reconstruction: Learning from the Past\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHalf-formed Things: Building Gendered and Ethnic Identities\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnder Construction: Fluid Freedoms\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 The Perfect Neoliberal: The Corporate and the Corporeal in American \u003ci\u003ePsycho\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConsuming Objects: Commodity Fetishism and the Corporeal\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Power of the Corporeal: Corporate Instability\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChasing the Cipher: Bodily Violation as Critical Interrogation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReinventing Neoliberalism: Crisis and Regeneration\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6 Wild Men: Freedom and Masculinity in \u003ci\u003eFight Club\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInfected Masculinity: Reforming Capitalism through the Male Body\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInfecting Society: Project Mayhem as Social Disease\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRethinking the Ethics of Physicality: Gender and the Politics of Illness\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe End of Freedom? The Return of the Limit\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7 \"This Is Not an Exit\": The (Non) Death of Transgression\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom Safety Valve to Critical Exploration: Transgressive Fiction as a Fictional Lab\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Mind-Body Problem: Connecting Ideology and Physicality\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoving beyond Boundaries: Transgressive Fiction After the Turn of the Century\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo Future? The Continued Importance of Transgressive Fiction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48884066910551,"sku":"9780367664534","price":37.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780367664534.jpg?v=1722530285","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/extreme-states-the-evolution-of-american-transgressive-fiction-19602000-9780367664534","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}