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Todd, Ian Scott.

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Bathroom readings: Modernism and the politics of abjections.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Bathroom readings: Modernism and the politics of abjections./
Author:	Todd, Ian Scott.
Description:	185 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-10(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International75-10A(E).
Subject:	English literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3624741
ISBN:	9781303987281

Bathroom readings: Modernism and the politics of abjections.
Todd, Ian Scott.

Bathroom readings: Modernism and the politics of abjections. - 185 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-10(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Tufts University, 2014.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Bathroom Readings considers four modern British novels in which representations of bathrooms and excremental dirt serve to articulate queerly anti-social responses to an emergent politics of hygiene. Its argument comes to rest on three main claims: that a subset of literary modernism, which I call excremental modernism, utilized representations of excrement and dirt to voice resistance to the ideology of modernity; that the politics of excremental modernism get expressed in affective rather than aim-oriented ways; and that modernism's investment in bodily abjection has not yet been adequately accounted for, even in the wake of recent developments within the new modernist studies. In my readings of James Joyce's Ulysses (1922), Mulk Raj Anand's Untouchable (1935), Jean Rhys' Good Morning, Midnight (1938), and Christopher Isherwood's A Single Man (1964), I consider the proximity of various kinds of queer outsiders---loners, vagrants, racial and sexual minorities---to forms of excremental abjection. Marked as dirty and inefficient, these queer subjects insist on retaining their place on the margins and therefore haunt modernity's efforts to clean up the social field. My research builds upon and re-orients the recent surge of interest in "bad," wayward, or deviant aspects of modernism and also engages with recent work in queer theory, affect theory, and critical race theory. A consideration of these texts seems to me especially useful in a twenty-first century that promises to hold new victories for minority activist groups, as they remind us of those problematic bodies that complicate efforts to achieve political or social progress. Throughout the dissertation I engage with theories of queerness, hygiene, affect, and subjectivity by the likes of Heather Love, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Dominique Laporte, Tavia Nyong'o, Lauren Berlant, Jose Esteban Munoz, Sianne Ngai, and Julia Kristeva.

ISBN: 9781303987281Subjects--Topical Terms:

516356
English literature.

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