... This essay argues that “trash” is a key category for understanding processes of cultural devaluation and decapitalization. It investigates what it frames as despised forms in a specific literary archive: the vast production of Caribbean pulp fiction published in the post-WWII period. Examining...

... of Caribbean pulp fiction published in the post-WWII period. Examining the circulation of archipelagic trash in the circum-Atlantic region, the essay traces the boom in representations of white trash subjectivities in postwar Caribbean plantation family sagas, from their incipient manifestation in the early...

... Chapter 5 explores how to eat better with the ocean. Following the advice of marine science, the chapter argues that eating fish low on the trophic scale makes sense. However, these little fish are caught within the massive global fishmeal and fish oil reduction industries, pulped into food...

...—as modeled by Roland Barthes’s method in A Lover’s Discourse (1977)—offers an alternative to critique. The essay closes with a phenomenological reading of Jim Thompson’s The Killer Inside Me (1952), a pulp fiction work that uses cliché in ways we cannot simply dismiss as ideologically complicit...

.... A phenomenology of cliché—as modeled by Roland Barthes’s method in A Lover’s Discourse (1977)—offers an alternative to critique. The essay closes with a phenomenological reading of Jim Thompson’s The Killer Inside Me (1952), a pulp fiction work that uses cliché in ways we cannot simply dismiss...