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



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Autore: Haines Christian Visualizza persona
Titolo: A Desire Called America : Biopolitics, Utopia, and the Literary Commons / / Christian Haines Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, NY : , : Fordham University Press, , [2019]
©2019
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (257 pages)
Disciplina: 810.9372
Soggetto topico: Utopias - United States
Soggetto non controllato: American exceptionalism
Biopolitics
Commons
Emily Dickinson
Thomas Pynchon
Utopia
Walt Whitman
William Burroughs
Nota di contenuto: 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
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: A Desire Called America  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8232-8697-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910811789903321
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