A Desire Called America : : Biopolitics, Utopia, and the Literary Commons / / Christian Haines.
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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Haines, Christian, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut A Desire Called America : Biopolitics, Utopia, and the Literary Commons / Christian Haines. New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2019] ©2019 1 online resource (272 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda 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 restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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 remarkably invested in American exceptionalism. Riding a strange current of U.S. literature that draws on American exceptionalism only to overturn it in the name of utopian desire, Haines reveals a tradition of viewing the United States as a unique and exemplary political model while rejecting exceptionalism's commitments to nationalism, capitalism, and individualism. Through Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, William S. Burroughs, and Thomas Pynchon, Haines brings to light a radically different version of the American dream-one in which political subjects value an organization of social life that includes democratic self-governance, egalitarian cooperation, and communal property.A Desire Called America brings utopian studies and the critical discourse of biopolitics to bear upon each other, suggesting that utopia might be less another place than our best hope for confronting authoritarianism, neoliberalism, and a resurgent exclusionary nationalism. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) 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. bisacsh American exceptionalism. Biopolitics. Commons. Emily Dickinson. Thomas Pynchon. Utopia. Walt Whitman. William Burroughs. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019 9783110722734 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823286973?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823286973 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780823286973/original |
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