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Merging autobiography, criticism, feminist theory and poetry in an economy of desire, Memewars puts a poetics of rupture, displacement, obsession and exile into praxis. This text writes against a sexist, imperialist discourse of mastery and idealization. It challenges the mythologies of cohesion, autonomy and stable identity--the capitalist vision of literary originality, where ownership is of prime value. As a book that calls into question beginnings and ends, Memewars has no closure and no "back" cover; six individual texts work from two separate beginnings: they clash in the "middle"--an unstable and shifting "centre." However through a self-reflexive practice of authorization, intention is delegitimized as the centre-piece decentres, and becomes yet another beginning.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Poetry

• Full title: Memewars
• Author: Adeena Karasick
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 120
• EAN: 9780889223448
• ISBN: 0889223440
• ID: 04754918
• Publisher: Talonbooks
• Weight: 198 g
• Dimensions: 228 × 152 × 12 mm
• Date of publishing: 20. January 1994

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