Toxic Waste and Unpaid Labor

IF 0.2 2区文学 0 LITERATURE NINETEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI:10.1215/0041462X-9084302

Steph Lambert

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Abstract

“Everyday things represent the most overlooked forms of knowledge,” claims Father Paulus, the Jesuit priest in Don DeLillo’s novel Underworld (1997). What tends to go overlooked in DeLillo’s work, this article proposes, is the socio-ecological violence of the capitalist world-system that undergirds this “everyday.” Turning to DeLillo’s depiction of the Cold War kitchen in Underworld (1997) and consumerist detritus in White Noise (1985), this article reveals how the novels foreground the exploited labor and land required to sustain accumulation and the toxic consequences of the US cycle. To do so, it brings into dialogue critiques of everyday life; the Warwick Research Collective’s definition of “world-literature” as “the literary registration of . . . combined and uneven development”; Jason W. Moore’s world-ecological analysis with Marx’s theory of value; and Silvia Federici, Maria Mies, and Nancy Fraser’s Marxist-feminist analyses of domestic labor.

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唐·德利洛的小说《黑社会》（1997）中的耶稣会牧师保罗神父声称：“日常事物代表了最被忽视的知识形式。”。本文认为，在DeLillo的作品中，往往被忽视的是资本主义世界体系的社会生态暴力，它支撑着这种“日常”。转向DeLillo在《黑社会》（1997）和《白噪音》（1985）中对冷战厨房的描绘，这篇文章揭示了小说如何展望维持积累所需的被剥削的劳动力和土地，以及美国周期的有毒后果。为此，它将对日常生活的批评纳入对话；华威研究集体对“世界文学”的定义是“文学注册……组合和不均衡的发展”；摩尔的世界生态分析与马克思的价值理论；Silvia Federici、Maria Mies和Nancy Fraser对家务劳动的马克思主义女权主义分析。

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期刊介绍： From Ozymandias to Huckleberry Finn, Nineteenth-Century Literature unites a broad-based group of transatlantic authors and poets, literary characters, and discourses - all discussed with a keen understanding of nineteenth -century literary history and theory. The major journal for publication of new research in its field, Nineteenth-Century Literature features articles that span across disciplines and explore themes in gender, history, military studies, psychology, cultural studies, and urbanism. The journal also reviews annually over 70 volumes of scholarship, criticism, comparative studies, and new editions of nineteenth-century English and American literature.