Blank fictions : consumerism, culture, consumption and contemporary American novel
This study of the work of young American writers focuses on a group who value superficiality over complexity, and "pulp" culture over the highbrow. Previously dismissed as nihilist Generation X no-hopers, Annesley attempts to position their work as an analysis of late 20th-century culture.
Criticism, interpretation, etc
192 pages ; 23 cm
9780745310916, 9780745310909, 0745310915, 0745310907
1101249346
Introduction - what is blank fiction?; Dazeland confused - blank fiction as anti-capitalist satire; negotiating the popular; freewheeling in the free market; violence, commodification and the body; decadence and disquiet - blank fiction and the coming fin de siecle; conclusion - modern narrative and materialism.