The Writing of “Dreck”: Consumerism, Waste and Re-use in Donald Barthelme’s Snow White

This paper examines the relationship between material waste, late capitalism, and the language and structure of Donald Barthelme’s fiction, with particular attention to Snow White (1967). Going against established modes of allegorizing the theme of waste in Barthelme’s work, I suggest the fruitfulne...

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Main Author: Rachele Dini
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: European Association for American Studies 2016-08-01
Series:European Journal of American Studies
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/ejas/11588
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