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The New Opioid Novel

The New Opioid Novel “The New Opioid Novel” explores a collection of contemporary US fiction published in the 2010s that tackles the current opioid crisis. Differentiating these new opioid novels from earlier opioid literature, opioid memoirs, and other contemporary drug literature, this essay identifies three distinct modalities of the new opioid novel, paying particular attention to the ways these texts think through the causality of the opioid epidemic. First, some texts (novels from Julie Bunton, Brian Allen Carr, Cheryl Reed, and Jennifer Weiner), which read like detective fiction, take an epistemological approach, framing opioid use as a problem or mystery to be solved. A second set of texts pursues a more ontological approach. These novels (Nico Walker's Cherry and Michael Henson's Maggie Boylan and Tommy Perdue), which read like existential fiction, sidestep the problem of causality to imagine opioids as just another part of the world we've all been thrown into. Finally, a more phenomenologically oriented set of texts (Carter Sickels's The Evening Hour and Robert Gipe's Trampoline and Weedeater) works past the problem of our ontological thrownness to explore new ways of living with and within the opioid epidemic. These three categories provide a heuristic framework for approaching other new opioid novels not treated here. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Genre Duke University Press

The New Opioid Novel

Huehls, Mitchum
Genre , Volume 55 (1) – Apr 1, 2022
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Copyright © 2022 by University of Oklahoma
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0016-6928
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10.1215/00166928-9720881
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Abstract

“The New Opioid Novel” explores a collection of contemporary US fiction published in the 2010s that tackles the current opioid crisis. Differentiating these new opioid novels from earlier opioid literature, opioid memoirs, and other contemporary drug literature, this essay identifies three distinct modalities of the new opioid novel, paying particular attention to the ways these texts think through the causality of the opioid epidemic. First, some texts (novels from Julie Bunton, Brian Allen Carr, Cheryl Reed, and Jennifer Weiner), which read like detective fiction, take an epistemological approach, framing opioid use as a problem or mystery to be solved. A second set of texts pursues a more ontological approach. These novels (Nico Walker's Cherry and Michael Henson's Maggie Boylan and Tommy Perdue), which read like existential fiction, sidestep the problem of causality to imagine opioids as just another part of the world we've all been thrown into. Finally, a more phenomenologically oriented set of texts (Carter Sickels's The Evening Hour and Robert Gipe's Trampoline and Weedeater) works past the problem of our ontological thrownness to explore new ways of living with and within the opioid epidemic. These three categories provide a heuristic framework for approaching other new opioid novels not treated here.

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Published: Apr 1, 2022

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    Amidon, Allyce
  • Opioid Ontopolitics: Industrial Capitalism, Metabolic Rift, and the Power of Things
    Bush, Sasha Breger
  • Commonly Used Terms
  • Heroin Overdose Data
  • Synthetic Opioid Overdose Data
  • U.S. Opioid Dispensing Rate Maps
  • The Opioid/Overdose Crisis as a Dialectics of Pain, Despair, and One-Sided Struggle
    Friedman, Samuel R. Krawczyk, Noa Perlman, David C. Mateu-Gelabert, Pedro Ompad, Danielle C. Hamilton, Leah Nikolopoulos, Georgios Guarino, Honoria Cerdá, Magdalena
  • Race as a Ghost Variable in (White) Opioid Research
    Hansen, Helena Parker, Caroline Netherland, Jules
  • Finding Maggie Boylan
    Henson, Michael
  • Racial Bias in Pain Assessment and Treatment Recommendations, and False Beliefs about Biological Differences between Blacks and Whites
    Hoffman, Kelly M. Trawalter, Sophie Axt, Jordan R. Oliver, M. Norman
  • The Opioid Crisis in Black Communities
    James, Keturah Jordan, Ayana
  • The Drugs Don't Work: Tao Lin's Taipei and the Literature of Pharmacology
    Lim, Audrea
  • Racial/Ethnic Age Group Differences in Opioid and Synthetic Opioid-Involved Overdose Deaths among Adults Aged ≥18 Years in Metropolitan Areas—United States, 2015–2017
    Lippold, Kumiko M. Jones, Christopher M. O'Malley, Emily Giroir, Brett P.
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    Lovejoy, Jordan
  • White Opioids: Pharmaceutical Race and the War on Drugs That Wasn't
    Netherland, Julie Hansen, Helena
  • Whiteness, Scapegoating, and Scarcity: Medicalizing ‘the US Opioid Crisis.’
    Pettus, Katherine
  • ‘Hey, Let's Have a Very Good Time’: The Opioid Aesthetics of Post-verbal Rap
    Richey, Austin
  • The Opioid Epidemic in Indian Country
    Tipps, Robin T. Buzzard, Gregory T. McDougall, John A.
  • Opioid Addiction, Genetic Susceptibility, and Medical Treatments: A Review
    Wang, Shao-Cheng