Consumerism, Waste, and Re-Use in Twentieth-Century Fiction

Rachele Dini teaches at the Foundation for International Education and in the English Department at University College London, UK. She has a BA Hons from Cambridge University, an MA from King’s College London, and a PhD from University College London, UK.

• Introduction.- Chapter One: In search of an epiphany: Redeeming waste and irrupting into the everyday.- Chapter Two: Samuel Beckett’s personnes perdues: Human waste in The Trilogy, Texts for Nothing, and How it I.- Chapter Three: Waste in Donald Barthelme, J.G Ballard, and William Gaddis.- Chapter Four: “Most of our longings go unfulfilled”: DeLillo’s historiographical readings of landfills and nuclear fallout.- Conclusion.- Bibliography