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Haines Christian |
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A Desire Called America : Biopolitics, Utopia, and the Literary Commons / / Christian Haines |
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New York, NY : , : Fordham University Press, , [2019] |
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©2019 |
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1 online resource (257 pages) |
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Front matter -- 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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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 |
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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. |
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