LEADER 03209nam 22005055 450 001 9910793711203321 005 20230817182109.0 010 $a0-8232-8697-5 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823286973 035 $a(CKB)4100000009185696 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5892651 035 $a(DE-B1597)555512 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823286973 035 $a(OCoLC)1119037742 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000009185696 100 $a20200723h20192019 fg 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 12$aA Desire Called America $eBiopolitics, Utopia, and the Literary Commons /$fChristian Haines 210 1$aNew York, NY :$cFordham University Press,$d[2019] 210 4$dİ2019 215 $a1 online resource (257 pages) 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction: Impossibly American --$t1. A Revolutionary Haunt: Utopian Frontiers in William S. Burroughs?s Late Trilogy --$t2. The People and the People: Democracy and Vitalism in Walt Whitman?s 1855 Leaves of Grass --$t3. Nobody?s Wife: Affective Economies of Marriage in Emily Dickinson --$t4. Idle Power: The Riot, the Commune, and Capitalist Time in Thomas Pynchon?s Against the Day --$tCoda: Assembling the Future --$tAcknowledgments --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aCritics 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. 606 $aUtopias$zUnited States 610 $aAmerican exceptionalism. 610 $aBiopolitics. 610 $aCommons. 610 $aEmily Dickinson. 610 $aThomas Pynchon. 610 $aUtopia. 610 $aWalt Whitman. 610 $aWilliam Burroughs. 615 0$aUtopias 676 $a810.9372 700 $aHaines$b Christian$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01538839 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910793711203321 996 $aA Desire Called America$93789249 997 $aUNINA