Charts a new international writing phenomenon - 'contemporary extreme literature'.
Acknowledgements Contributors Introduction; Alian-Philippe Durand and Naomi Mandel Part I: Americas1. 'Right Here in Nowheres': American Psycho and Violence's Critique; Naomi Mandel 2. Telling doubles and Literal Minded Reading in Bret Easton Ellis' Glamorama; Henrik Skov Nielsen 3. Posthumous Voice and Residual Presence in Don DeLillo's The Body Artist; Mikko Keskinen 4. A Post-Apocalyptic World: The Excremental, Abject Female Warriors of Josée Yvon; Paula Ruth Gilbert with Colleen Lester 5. On the Impossibility of Being Contemporary in Nelly Arcan's Folle; Martine Delvaux 6. Media-Portrayed Violence in Alberto Fuguet's Tinta roja; Jason G. Summers Part II: Europe and the Middle East7. Sadomasochism, Castration and Rape: Richard Morgiève's Nightmare Theater of Primal Scenes; Ralph Schoolcraft 8. Dantec's Inferno; Lawrence R. Schehr 9. Apocalypse Now: Fins de siècles in the French Novel; Sabine van Wesemael 10. Beyond The Extreme: Frédéric Beigbeder's Windows on the World; Alain-Philippe Durand 11. Amélie Nothomb's Dialectic of the Sublime and the Grotesque; Martine Guyot-Bender 12. Violence Biting Its Own Tail: Martin Amis's Yellow Dog; Jean-Michel Ganteau 13. Beauty and Death as Simulacra in Ray Loriga's Caídos del cielo and El hombre que inventó Manhattan; Kathryn Everly 14. Sex, Drugs, and Violence in Lucía Etxebarria's Amor, curiosidad, prozac y dudas; Catherine Bourland Ross 15- On Human Parts: Orly Castel-Bloom and the Israeli Extreme; Adia Mendelson-Maoz Bibliography Index
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