Insistence of the material: literature in the age of biopolitics

Introduction: theorizing materiality in the age of biopolitics

The novel enfleshed: Naked lunch and the literature of materiality

Vital objects: materiality and biopolitics in Thomas Pynchon's V

The late-modern unconscious: the object world of J.G. Ballard's Crash

Disinterring the real: embodiment, AIDS, and biomedicalization in Dodie Bellamy's The letters of Mina Harker

Almanac of the living: thanatopolitics and an alternative biopolitics in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the dead

Conclusion: tarrying with the material.