Author: A. C. Facundo File Type: pdf Revises key psychoanalytic concepts that influence interpretive practices in the humanities and formulates a new approach to reading fiction. Oscillations of Literary Theory offers a new psychoanalytic approach to reading literature queerly, one that implicates queer theory without depending on explicit representations of sex or queer identities. By focusing on desire and identifications, A. C. Facundo argues that readers can enjoy the text through a variety of rhythms between two (eroticized) positions the paranoid imperative and queer reparative. Facundo examines the metaphor of rupture as central to the logic of critique, particularly the project to undo conventional formations of identity and power. To show how readers can rebuild their relational worlds after the rupture, Facundo looks to the themes of the desire for omniscience, the queer pleasure of the text, loss and letting go, and the vanishing points that structure thinking. Analyses of Nabokovs Lolita, Danielewskis House of Leaves, Findleys The Wars, and Ishiguros Never Let Me Go are included, which model this new approach to reading. A. C. Facundo is an independent scholar, who received a PhD in English from York University in Toronto and continued as a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council postdoctoral fellow at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. **Review Armed with a full repertoire of psychoanalytic resources, Facundo navigates the paranoid-reparative debate in literary studies with greater finesse than any critic Ive read. Reframing current critical impasses, Oscillations of Literary Theory makes substantial contributions to narrative theory and aesthetics by illuminating their crucial connections with sexuality and pleasure. Facundo offers us here nothing less than a new method of reading queerly. -- Tim Dean, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign This book seeks to understand hermeneutic imperatives and flights from these in terms of paranoid and reparative drives (as distinct from affect). It is a bold and ambitious project, but Facundo brings to it an exceptional array of skills. I am impressed by the authors close, subtle, and very canny readings of both theoretical and literary texts and by her demonstration of the complexity, variety, and centrality of ideas and operations of paranoia and the reparative in writings from Freud to the present. Oscillations revitalizes psychoanalytic criticism in its distinctly queer relation to psychoanalysis, a relation that yields surprising and refreshing insights. -- Stephen M. Barber, coeditor of Regarding Sedgwick Essays on Queer Culture and Critical Theory About the Author A. C. Facundo is an independent scholar, who received a PhD in English from York University in Toronto and continued as a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council postdoctoral fellow at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York.

Author: Alex V. Barnard File Type: pdf If capitalism is such an efficient system, why does 40 percent of all U.S. food production go to wastewhile one in six people in the nation face hunger? This startling truth has stirred increasing interest and action of late, but none so radical as that of the freegans, who live on what capitalism throws awayincluding food culled from supermarket dumpsters. Freegans is a close look at the people in this movement, offering a broader perspective on ethical consumption and the changing nature of capitalism. Freegans object to the overconsumption and environmental degradation on which they claim our economic order depends, and they register that dissent by opting out of it, recovering, redistributing, and consuming wasted goods, from dumpster-dived food to cast-off clothes and furniture. Through several years of fieldwork and in-depth interviews with freegans in New York City, Alex Barnard has created a portrait of freegans that leads to questions about ethical consumptionlike buying organic, fair trade, or veganand the search for effective forms of action in an era of political disillusionment. Barnards analysis of this pressing concern reveals how waste is integrally bound up with our food system. At the same time, by showing that markets do not seamlessly translate preferences expressed at the cash register into changes in production, Freegans exposes the limits of consumer activism. **Review Eat this book. If youre lucky enough to find it in the trash, dig it out and bite in. Its sociologically fresh and environmentally nutritious. Alex V. Barnard writes crisply and invitingly, and his analysis of the fetishism of waste is novel and helpful. This is ethnography as it is meant to be going through the trash and thrash of everyday life and uncovering analytic treasuresfree to be had, if we only stop to look.Michael Bell, University of Wisconsin-Madison In Freegans, Alex V. Barnard examines how this group of activists aims to change the way we live on this world, one overripe tomato at a time.Tristram Stuart, author of Waste Uncovering the Global Food Scandal Readers with interests in social justice, activist movements, environmentalism, consumerism, and food waste will find this book thought provoking.Library Journal About the Author Alex V. Barnard is a doctoral candidate in sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, and a food justice activist.

Author: Nadine Holdsworth File Type: pdf ReviewAs an introduction to contemporary British and Irish drama and its literature, this Blackwell concise companion is excellent.... But be careful, intellectual stimulation is certain! (Reference Reviews, April 2009) Book DescriptionFocusing on major and emerging playwrights, institutions, and various theatre practices this Concise Companion examines the key issues in British and Irish theatre since 1979. Written by leading international scholars in the field, this collection offers new ways of thinking about the social, political, and cultural contexts within which specific aspects of British and Irish theatre have emerged and explores the relationship between these contexts and the works produced. The collection analyses key issues such as globalization, genocide, migration, and national identity, forms such as verbatim theatre and site-specific performance, the use of new technologies, and the practice of physical theatre. It investigates why particular issues and practices have emerged as significant in the theatre of this period.

Author: John Neubauer File Type: pdf This is the first comparative study of literature written by writers who fled from East-Central Europe during the twentieth century. It includes not only interpretations of individual lives and literary works, but also studies of the most important literary journals, publishers, radio programs, and other aspects of exile literary cultures. The theoretical part of introduction distinguishes between exiles, emigres, and expatriates, while the historical part surveys the pre-twentieth-century exile traditions and provides an overview of the exilic events between 1919 and 1995 one section is devoted to exile cultures in Paris, London, and New York, as well as in Moscow, Madrid, Toronto, Buenos Aires and other cities. The studies focus on the factional divisions within each national exile culture and on the relationship between the various exiled national cultures among each other. They also investigate the relation of each exile national culture to the culture of its host country. Individual essays are devoted to Witold Gombrowicz, Paul Goma, Milan Kundera, Monica Lovincescu, Milos Crnjanski, Herta Muller, and to the internal exile of Imre Kertesz. Special attention is devoted to the new forms of exile that emerged during the ex-Yugoslav wars, and to the problems of homecoming of exiled texts and writers