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Author Quinby, Lee

Title Anti-Apocalypse : Exercises in Genealogical Criticism
Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1994

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Description 1 online resource (238 pages)
Contents Acknowledgments; Introduction: Apocalyptic Fits; Part I. Genealogy Now; 1. Eu(jean)ics: The New Fashion in Power; 2. Genealogical Feminism: A Politic Way of Looking; 3. Philosophy Today: Not-for-Prophet Thought; Part II. The Re-Creations and Recreations of Adam and Eve: Reading Modernist Texts in Postmodern Contexts; 4. Conceiving the New Man: Henry Adams and the Birth of Ironic Apocalypse; 5. "Woman Got de Key": Zora Neale Hurston and Resistance to Apocalypse; Part III. A Book of Revelry: The Decline and Fall of the American Empire
Summary Drawing on feminist and Foucauldian theory, Quinby offers a powerful critique of the millenarian rhetoric that pervades American culture. Tracing the deployment of power through systems of alliance, sexuality, and technology, the author promotes a variety of critical stancesgenealogical feminism, an ethics of the flesh, and "pissed criticism"as challenges to apocalyptic claims for absolute truth and universal morality
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-196) and index
Notes English
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Subject American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
Apocalyptic literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
Feminism and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Postmodernism (Literature) -- United States
Genealogy in literature.
Civilization
Feminism and literature
Genealogy in literature
Literature and society
Postmodernism (Literature)
SUBJECT United States -- Civilization -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139942
Subject United States
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 93028600
ISBN 9780816685202
0816685207