Fetishism and Its Discontents in Post-1960 American Fiction

1. Introduction: Fetishism and Its Discontents
Christopher Kocela

Part I. Fetishism from Theory to Fiction

2. A Parallax History of Fetish Theory
Christopher Kocela

3. Signifying on Fetishism in Reed’s Mumbo Jumbo

Christopher Kocela

Part II. Fictions of the Female Fetish

4. Queering Lesbian Fetishism in Pynchon’s V
Christopher Kocela

5. Resighting Gender Theory: Butler’s Lesbian Phallus in Acker’s Pussy

Christopher Kocela

Part III. Pomo-Pornologies

6. Domesticating Fantasy: S/M Fetishism, Suburban Fiction, and Coover’s Spanking the Maid

Christopher Kocela

7. Narrating the Death Drive: Automotive Sintho Mosexuality and Hawkes’s Travesty

Christopher Kocela

8. Conclusion
Christopher Kocela

Keywords: Literature, North American Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Fiction