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Genre fission : a new discourse practice for cultural studies
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- Creator
- Marleen S. Barr
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2000]
- ©2000
- Physical Details
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- xviii, 272 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781587292712, 1587292718, 9780877457039, 0877457034
- OCLC
- ocm50322318, ocm42861743
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [249]-261) and index.
- Introduction: "The Grand Mix" or Who Wears the White Hats When the Barbie Liberation Organization Strikes Back? -- 1. Bridging the Dead Father's Canonical Divide: Max Apple, Saul Bellow, Edgar Allan Poe, and Lynn Redgrave Form a Textual Cross-Dresser Support Group -- 2. "All Good Things": The End of Star Trek: The Next Generation, the End of Camelot, and the End of the Tale about Woman as Handmaid to Patriarchy-as-Superman -- 3. Shutting the Bestial Mouth: Confessions of Male Clones and Girl Gangs -- 4. Night Watch in Amsterdam's Red Light District: Prostitutes/Dutch Windows/Utopian and Dystopian Gazes -- 5. Los York/New Angeles: "New York, New York, a Helluva Town" Sings "I Wish They All Cloud Be California Girls" -- 6. American Middle-Class Males Mark the Moon: Retrospectively Reading the Apollo Program or Lorena Bobbitt vs. the Saturn 5 -- 7. Women "Churtening" via the Cha Cha: Ursula K. Le Guin and Hispanic-American Authors Write to the Same Rhythm -- 8. Wrapping the Reichstag vs. Rapping Racism or "A Colored Kind of White People": Black/White/Jew/Gentile -- 9. Playing with Time: The Holocaust as "A Different Universe of Discourse" -- Epilogue: Discourse as Black Hole - and as Liberated Light