Postmodern Plagiarisms : Cultural Agenda and Aesthetic Strategies of Appropriation in US-American Literature (1970-2010).

Contents -- 1 Introducing Plagiarism Beyond Illegitimate Plunder -- 2 Framing Plagiarism as a Postmodern Negotiation of Authorship and Text Sovereignty -- 2.1 Authorship and Its Nemeses: Plagiarism as Unoriginal Practice -- 2.1.1 The Commodification of Literature and the Economic Value of Authorial Attribution -- 2.1.2 The ExtraAesthetic Notion of Plagiarism: The Case of Literary Theft -- 2.1.3 Under Siege: Challenging Textual Integrity and Individual Authorship -- 2.2 Writing Beyond Petty Theft: Critifiction, ConText, and NeoConceptual Writing -- 2.2.1 "Everything can be said and must be said in any possible way": Stealing Away With Critifiction and Playgiarism -- 2.2.2 Disowning Meaning and Male Authority: Feminist Plagiarist ConText -- 2.2.3 NeoConceptual Uncreative Writing of the TwentyFirst Century -- 3 Plagiarism as Writing Practice in US Postmodern Literature -- 3.1 Practicing Theory With Critifiction: Raymond Federman's Double or Nothing (1971/1991) -- 3.2 ConText as Dissident Feminist Writing: Kathy Acker's Empire] of the Senseless (1988) -- 3.3 NeoConceptual Appropriate Writing -- 3.3.1 Uncreative Writing as Constrained Transcription: Kenneth Goldsmith's £>oy(2003) -- 3.3.2 Appropriating Legal Texts: Vanessa Place's Tragodia I: Statement of Facts (2010) -- 3.3.3 Appropriate and Erase: Yedda Morrison's Darkness (chapter 1) (2009) -- 4 Conclusion: The Present and Future of Strategic Appropriation in the Arts -- Bibliography -- Index.