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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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2019] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- 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