J. G. Ballard by D. HarlanWilson 208 Pages, Published 2017 by University Of Illinois Press ISBN-13: 978-0-252-05003-9, ISBN: 0-252-05003-7
"Vaughn is the seminal vehicle. He introduces new ways of seeing and thinking
by fusing together the car, the movie star, and sexuality, “the codes of a new
marriage of sensation and possibility” (106). And a masculine ethos inscribes
these codes. Crash, after all, is a novel about the phallus—its empowerment, its
fluidity, its assertion/insertion, and its “automutilation.” Ballard fixates on
Vaughan's damaged face, an emblem of his ..."