Table of Contents

Introduction - apocalyptic fits. Part I Genealogy now eu(jean)ics: the new fashion in power; genealogical feminism: a politic way of looking; philosophy today - not-for-prophet thought. Part II The re-creations and recreations of Adam and Eve: reading modernist texts in postmodern contexts; conceiving the new man - Henry Adams and the birth of ironic apocalypse; "Woman got de key" - Zora Neale Hurston and resistance to apocalypse. Part III A book of revelry: the decline and fall of the American empire; urination and civilization - practising pissed criticism; resistance on the home front - re(con)figuring home space as a practice of freedom.

About the Author

Lee Quinby is a Visiting Professor at Macaulay Honors College. She is the author of Freedom, Foucault, and the Subject of America (1991) and the coeditor (with Irene Diamond) of Feminism and Foucault: Reflections on Resistance (1988). Here publications include articles in the American Historical Review, Criticism, and Signs.