Desire Called America
Subtitle: Biopolitics, Utopia, and the Literary Commons
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780823286942
Description: Presents interpretations of American literature and politics, focusing on the work of Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, William S. Burroughs, and Thomas Pynchon. Analyzes how literary texts imagine America in utopian terms, contrasting American exceptionalism to non-capitalist visions of the American future.