Introduction: We have always been fecal -- Necessary shit. Céline: shit on the installment plan -- Beckett: shit for brains -- Shitty ideas. Fecal freedom: Sartre and Genet's ))< >(( -- To wipe the other: Duras's and Gary's fecal care ethics -- Political shit. Fighting words: Anne Garréta's ultimate weapon -- Daniel Pennac's excremental poetics: literature for all -- Conclusion: Caca communism
Summary
"Readers and critics have long overlooked excrement's vital role in the twentieth- and twenty-first-century French canon. In a challenge to the tendency to view this literature through sanitizing abstractions, Cacaphonies reads key authors to argue for feces as a figure of radical equality-a literary object and a reflection on literature itself-without which literary studies is impoverished and sterile"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 06, 2022)
