Wasted: Performing Addiction in America

Wasted: Performing Addiction in America
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Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages : 221
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ISBN-10 : 9781472442376
ISBN-13 : 1472442377
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Book Synopsis Wasted: Performing Addiction in America by : Dr Heath A Diehl

Download or read book Wasted: Performing Addiction in America written by Dr Heath A Diehl and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2016-01-28 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 her systematic exclusion from various aspects of American culture. It will appeal to scholars of popular culture, cultural and media studies, performance studies, sociology and American culture.


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