{"product_id":"abjection-incorporated-mediating-the-politics-of-pleasure-and-violence-paperback","title":"Abjection Incorporated: Mediating the Politics of Pleasure and Violence - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMaggie Hennefeld\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eNicholas Sammond\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the films of Larry Clark to the feminist comedy of Amy Schumer to the fall of Louis C. K., comedic, graphic, and violent moments of abjection have permeated twentieth- and twenty-first-century social and political discourse. The contributors to \u003ci\u003eAbjection Incorporated\u003c\/i\u003e move beyond simple critiques of abjection as a punitive form of social death, illustrating how it has become a contested mode of political and cultural capital--empowering for some but oppressive for others. Escaping abjection's usual confines of psychoanalysis and aesthetic modernism, core to theories of abjection by thinkers such as Kristeva and Bataille, the contributors examine a range of media, including literature, photography, film, television, talking dolls, comics, and manga. Whether analyzing how comedic abjection can help mobilize feminist politics or how expressions of abjection inflect class, race, and gender hierarchies, the contributors demonstrate the importance of competing uses of abjection to contemporary society and politics. They emphasize abjection's role in circumscribing the boundaries of the human and how the threats abjection poses to the self and other, far from simply negative, open up possibilities for radically new politics. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Contributors. Meredith Bak, Eugenie Brinkema, James Leo Cahill, Michelle Cho, Maggie Hennefeld, Rob King, Thomas Lamarre, Sylvère Lotringer, Rijuta Mehta, Mark Mulroney, Nicholas Sammond, Yiman Wang, Rebecca Wanzo\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaggie Hennefeld is Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, and author of \u003ci\u003eSpecters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Nicholas Sammond is Associate Professor of Cinema Studies at the University of Toronto and author of \u003ci\u003eBirth of an Industry: Blackface Minstrelsy and the Rise of American Animation\u003c\/i\u003e, also published by Duke University Press.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 344\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 9 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 17, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42117950472327,"sku":"9781478003021","price":56.63,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/7b6dc601fe6b42a3d144488ce73745cd.webp?v=1732529116","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/abjection-incorporated-mediating-the-politics-of-pleasure-and-violence-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}