Contemporary American Literature and Excremental Culture

Chapter 1 Introduction: On the American Standard: Post-1960 Scatological Fiction

Chapter 2 Soiling the Black Body: Ishmael Reed Engages White Shit

Chapter 3 Battling the Excremental Self: Western Civilization and Its Decomposition in Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections

Chapter 4 Fleeing the Excremental Stain Through Acquisition: Getting to the Bottom of Black Suburban Splendor in Gloria Naylor’s Linden Hills

Chapter 5 Waste as Weapon: Fecal Bombing in Don DeLillo’s Underworld

Chapter 6 Shit and Other Forms of Dynamite Refuse: Samuel R. Delany’s Provocative Excremental Eros