A Desire Called America: Biopolitics, Utopia, and the Literary Commons
ISBN: 9780823286973
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Fordham University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Language & Literature ; Philosophy ; Political Science;

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.

Haines Christian :

Christian P. Haines is Assistant Professor of English at Penn State University.Christian P. Haines is Assistant Professor of English at Penn State University.


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