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001			ocn872562208
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008			210309s2014 cau b 001 0 eng d
020			_a9780804791960 (cloth)
020			_a0804791961 (cloth)
035			_a(OCoLC)872562208
050			_aPS228.C65 _bM35 2014
100	1		_aMalewitz, Raymond.
245	1	4	_aThe practice of misuse : _brugged consumerism in contemporary American culture / _cRaymond Malewitz.
260			_aStanford, California : _bStanford University Press, _cc2014.
300			_a227 p.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 209-220) and index.
505	0		_aMisuse : from aesthetics to practice -- Theaters of rugged consumerism -- The garden in the machine : biomimetic hybrids and the tragedy of singular use -- The rugged consumer Bildungsroman -- Ritual, play, and neoliberal rugged consumerism -- The commodity at the end of the world.
520			_aThis title examines the oppositional emergence and eventual ideological containment of 'rugged consumers' in late 20th century American literature, who creatively misuse, reuse, and repurpose the objects within their environments to suit their idiosyncratic needs and desires. The book shows how certain authors position their rugged consumers within the intertwined American myths of primal nature and rugged individualism, creating left- and right-libertarian maker communities that are sceptical of both traditional political institutions and (in its pre-neoliberal state) globalised corporate capitalism.
650		4	_aAmerican literature _y20th century _xHistory and criticism.
650		4	_aConsumption (Economics) in literature.
650		4	_aMaterial culture in literature.
650		4	_aConsumption (Economics) _zUnited States.
650		4	_aMaterial culture _zUnited States.
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999			_c1509 _d1509