“Let the Freaking Canning Begin”: Human Waste in the Workplaces of George Saunders’s Pastoralia (2000)
This article suggests how Michael Thompson’s Rubbish Theory (1979), specifically the model of the life cycle of rubbish, might be applied to the dystopian workplace environments of George Saunders’s surreal and, often, dystopian collection Pastoralia (2000). Pastoralia foregrounds rubbish through de...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Monash University
2018-12-01
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| Series: | Colloquy: Text, Theory, Critique |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.26180/5c11d8229355a |