Abjection Incorporated
Mediating the Politics of Pleasure and Violence
1st Edition
Published on 17. January 2020
342 pages
978-1-4780-0341-0 (ISBN)
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Examining abjection in a range of visual and material culture, the contributors to Abjection Incorporated 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.
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Mediating the Politics of Pleasure and Violence
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Abjection Incorporated
Mediating the Politics of Pleasure and Violence
Book
01/2020
Duke University Press
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Maggie Hennefeld is Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, and author of Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes.
Nicholas Sammond is Associate Professor of Cinema Studies at the University of Toronto and author of Birth of an Industry: Blackface Minstrelsy and the Rise of American Animation, also published by Duke University Press.
Nicholas Sammond is Associate Professor of Cinema Studies at the University of Toronto and author of Birth of an Industry: Blackface Minstrelsy and the Rise of American Animation, also published by Duke University Press.
Content
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction. Not It, or, The Abject Objection / Maggie Hennefeld and Nicholas Sammond 1
1. The Politics of Abjection / Sylvère Lotringer 33
Part I. Abject Performances: Subjectivity, Identity, Individuality
2. Popular Abjection and Gendered Embodiment in South Korean Film Comedy / Michelle Cho 43
3. Precarious-Girl Comedy: Issa Rae, Lena Dunham, and Abjection Aesthetics / Rebecca Wanzo 64
4. Abject Feminism, Grotesque Comedy, and Apocalyptic Laughter on Inside Amy Schumer / Maggie Hennefeld 86
Part II. Abject Bodies: Humans, Animals, Objects
5. The Animal and the Animalistic: China's Late 1950s Socialist Satirical Comedy / Yiman Wang 115
6. Anticolonial Folly and the Reversals of Repatriation / Rijuta Mehta 140
7. Between Technology and Toy: The Talking Doll as Abject Artifact / Meredith A. Bak 164
8. Absolute Dismemberment: The Burlesque Natural History of Georges Bataille / James Leo Cahill 185
9. Why, an Abject Art / Mark Mulroney 208
Part III. Abject Aesthetics: Structure, Form, System
10. A Matter of Fluids: EC Comics and the Vernacular Abject / Nicholas Sammond 217
11. Spit * Light * Spunk: Larry Clark, an Aesthetic of Frankness / Eugenie Brinkema 243
12. A Series of Ugly Feelings: Fabulation and Abjection in Shojo Manga / Thomas Lamarre 268
13. Powers of Comedy, or, The Abject Dialectics of Louie / Rob King 291
Contributors 321
Index
Introduction. Not It, or, The Abject Objection / Maggie Hennefeld and Nicholas Sammond 1
1. The Politics of Abjection / Sylvère Lotringer 33
Part I. Abject Performances: Subjectivity, Identity, Individuality
2. Popular Abjection and Gendered Embodiment in South Korean Film Comedy / Michelle Cho 43
3. Precarious-Girl Comedy: Issa Rae, Lena Dunham, and Abjection Aesthetics / Rebecca Wanzo 64
4. Abject Feminism, Grotesque Comedy, and Apocalyptic Laughter on Inside Amy Schumer / Maggie Hennefeld 86
Part II. Abject Bodies: Humans, Animals, Objects
5. The Animal and the Animalistic: China's Late 1950s Socialist Satirical Comedy / Yiman Wang 115
6. Anticolonial Folly and the Reversals of Repatriation / Rijuta Mehta 140
7. Between Technology and Toy: The Talking Doll as Abject Artifact / Meredith A. Bak 164
8. Absolute Dismemberment: The Burlesque Natural History of Georges Bataille / James Leo Cahill 185
9. Why, an Abject Art / Mark Mulroney 208
Part III. Abject Aesthetics: Structure, Form, System
10. A Matter of Fluids: EC Comics and the Vernacular Abject / Nicholas Sammond 217
11. Spit * Light * Spunk: Larry Clark, an Aesthetic of Frankness / Eugenie Brinkema 243
12. A Series of Ugly Feelings: Fabulation and Abjection in Shojo Manga / Thomas Lamarre 268
13. Powers of Comedy, or, The Abject Dialectics of Louie / Rob King 291
Contributors 321
Index
