A Desire Called America : Biopolitics, Utopia, and the Literary Commons /

Critics of American exceptionalism usually view it as a destructive force eroding the radical energies of social movements and aesthetic practices. In A Desire Called America, Christian P. Haines confronts a troubling paradox: Some of the most provocative political projects in the United States are...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Haines, Christian (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2019]
Temas:
American literature > History and criticism.
Exceptionalism > United States.
Politics in literature.
Utopias in literature.
Utopias > United States.
American Studies.
Literary Studies.
Philosophy & Theory.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory.
American exceptionalism.
Biopolitics.
Commons.
Emily Dickinson.
Thomas Pynchon.
Utopia.
Walt Whitman.
William Burroughs.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Impossibly American
  • 1. A Revolutionary Haunt: Utopian Frontiers in William S. Burroughs's Late Trilogy
  • 2. The People and the People: Democracy and Vitalism in Walt Whitman's 1855 Leaves of Grass
  • 3. Nobody's Wife: Affective Economies of Marriage in Emily Dickinson
  • 4. Idle Power: The Riot, the Commune, and Capitalist Time in Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day
  • Coda: Assembling the Future
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index

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