03271cam a2200697 4500 1863426047 TxAuBib 20250117120000.0 ||||||s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780472904822 0472904825 bc91b21e-efea-40a1-86b4-9e8094b61d00 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 11400988 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Hovanec, Caroline. Notes on Vermin [Libby eBook]. University of Michigan Press, 2025. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. cockroaches in literature. environmental humanities. mosquitoes in literature. contemporary literature. insects in literature. pigeons in literature. modernist literature. rats in literature. the metamorphosis. Literary studies. Critical Theory. namwali serpell. Plague of Doves. Psychoanalysis. Richard Wright. Animal Studies. d. h. lawrence. Louise Erdrich. Sigmund Freud. ecocriticism. Biopolitics. iconography. Franz Kafka. eco-Marxism. Native Son. Parasitism. creaturely. Modernism. cockroach. Rawi Hage. parasite. Metaphor. vermin. Kafka. pests. HTML:Vermin—rats, cockroaches, pigeons, mosquitoes, and other pests—are, to most people, objects of disgust. And vermin metaphors, likening human beings to these loathed creatures, appear in the ugliest forms of political rhetoric. Indeed, vermin imagery has often been used to denigrate poor, foreign, or racialized people. Yet many writers have reclaimed vermin, giving new meaning to creeping rodents, swarming insects, and wriggling worms.<br /> <br /> <i>Notes on Vermin</i> is an atlas of the literary vermin that appear in modern and contemporary literature, from Franz Kafka's gigantic insect to Richard Wright's city rats to Namwali Serpell's storytelling mosquitoes. As parasites, trespassers, and collectives, vermin animals prove useful to writers who seek to represent life in the margins of power. Drawing on psychoanalysis, cultural studies, eco-Marxism, and biopolitics, this book explores four uses for literary vermin: as figures for the repressed thought, the uncommitted fugitive, the freeloading parasite, and the surplus life. In a series of short, accessible, interlinked essays, <i>Notes on Vermin</i> explores what animal pests can show us about our cultures, our environments, and ourselves. Literary Criticism. Nonfiction. Sociology. Nature. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2025-01-17 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=bc91b21e-efea-40a1-86b4-9e8094b61d00&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)