Wasted: Performing Addiction in America

Summary

Departing from the scholarly treatment of addiction as a form of rhetoric or discursive formation, Wasted: Performing Addiction in America focuses on the material, lived experience of addiction and the ways in which it is shaped by a ’metaphor of waste’, from the manner in which people describe the addict, the experience of inebriation or his or he

Product details

• Authors: Heath A. Diehl, Diehl Heath A.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9780367597528
• ISBN: 978-0-367-59752-8
• No. of pages: 220
• Series: The Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Media Studies, Sociology, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, Society & culture: general, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Illness & addiction: social aspects, Literature: history & criticism, Society and culture: general, Health, illness and addiction: social aspects, Literature: history and criticism