Wasted: Performing Addiction in America

Name: Wasted: Performing Addiction in America
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

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 \u2019metaphor of waste\u2019, from the manner in which people describe the addict, the experience of inebriation or his or he > 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 \u2019metaphor of waste\u2019, 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. With analyses of scientific and popular cultural texts such as novels and films, scholarly or medical models of addiction, reality television, TV drama, public health and anti-addiction campaigns, and the li.