{"product_id":"a-desire-called-america-biopolitics-utopia-and-the-literary-commons-hardback-9780823286942","title":"A Desire Called America; Biopolitics, Utopia, and the Literary Commons (Hardback) 9780823286942","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eA Desire Called America\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eBiopolitics, Utopia, and the Literary Commons\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eChristian Haines (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780823286942\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 1 October 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e272 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.542 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eCritics of American exceptionalism usually view it as a destructive force eroding the radical energies of social movements and aesthetic practices. In \u003ci\u003eA Desire Called America\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eA Desire Called America\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e: Impossibly American   1\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e1. \u003c\/b\u003eA Revolutionary Haunt: Utopian Frontiers\u003cbr\u003e in William S. Burroughs's Late Trilogy   33\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e2.\u003c\/b\u003e The People and the People: Democracy and Vitalism\u003cbr\u003e in Walt Whitman's 1855\u003ci\u003e Leaves of Grass   \u003c\/i\u003e74\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e3.\u003c\/b\u003e Nobody's Wife: Affective Economies of Marriage\u003cbr\u003e in Emily Dickinson   114\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e4.\u003c\/b\u003e Idle Power: The Riot, the Commune, and Capitalist Time\u003cbr\u003e in Thomas Pynchon's\u003ci\u003e Against the Day\u003c\/i\u003e   157\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eCoda\u003c\/b\u003e: Assembling the Future   205\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/i\u003e   209\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNotes\u003c\/i\u003e   213\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e   241\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52580357407000,"sku":"9780823286942","price":88.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/a-desire-called-america-biopolitics-utopia-and-the-literary-commons-hardback-9780823286942","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}