{"product_id":"democratic-anarchy-aesthetics-and-political-resistance-in-u-s-literature-paperback-softback-9781531507077","title":"Democratic Anarchy; Aesthetics and Political Resistance in U.S. Literature (Paperback \/ softback) 9781531507077","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eDemocratic Anarchy\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAesthetics and Political Resistance in U.S. Literature\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMatthew Scully (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781531507077\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 2 July 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e256 pages, 5 b\/w illustrations\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.378 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\u003e\u003cb\u003eA dramatic and necessary rethinking of the meaning of Democracy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDemocratic Anarchy \u003c\/i\u003egrapples with an uncomfortable but obvious truth inimical to democracy: both aesthetics and politics depend on the structuring antagonism of inclusion and exclusion. Yet in \u003ci\u003eDemocratic Anarchy\u003c\/i\u003e, Matthew Scully asks, how can \"the people\" be represented in a way that acknowledges what remains unrepresentable? What would it mean to face up to the constitutive exclusions that haunt U.S. democracy and its anxious fantasies of equality?\u003cbr\u003e Synthesizing a broad range of theoretical traditions and interlocutors—including Lacan, Rancière, Edelman, and Hartman—\u003ci\u003eDemocratic Anarchy \u003c\/i\u003epolemically declares that there has never been, nor can there ever be, a realized democracy in the U.S. because democracy always depends on the hierarchical institution of a formal order by one part of the population over another. Engaging with an expansive corpus of American literature and art (Harriet Jacobs, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Louis Zukofsky, Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Nari Ward, Ocean Vuong, and Safiya Sinclair), \u003ci\u003eDemocratic Anarchy \u003c\/i\u003eargues that many liberal concepts and institutions are in fact structurally opposed to democratic equality because they depend on regulating what can appear and in what form.\u003cbr\u003e By focusing on works that disrupt this regulatory impulse, Scully shows how rhetorical strategies of interruption, excess, and disorder figure the anarchic equality that inegalitarian fantasies of democracy disavow. \u003ci\u003eDemocratic Anarchy \u003c\/i\u003edevelops a rigorous theory of equality that refuses to repeat the inequalities against which it positions itself, and it does so by turning to moments of resistance—both aesthetic and political—inaugurated by the equality that inheres in and antagonizes the order of things.\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: Democracy's Death Drive   1\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart I: Democratic Aesthetics\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e1 \u003c\/b\u003eThe Genres of Democracy: Romance, Sentiment, and the Slave Narrative   39\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e2 \u003c\/b\u003eParataxis and Metalepsis, or Figures of Democratic Equality   71\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart II: Aestheticidal Resistance\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e3 \u003c\/b\u003eA Poetics of Dissensus: Migrant, Citizen, and the Catachresis of Identity   113\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e4 \u003c\/b\u003eAgainst Representation, or Utopia After All   147\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eCoda\u003c\/b\u003e: Disavowal and Figural Annihilation   179\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments \u003c\/i\u003e  183\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNotes \u003c\/i\u003e  187\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBibliography \u003c\/i\u003e  239\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex \u003c\/i\u003e  261\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":52619266818328,"sku":"9781531507077","price":24.37,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/democratic-anarchy-aesthetics-and-political-resistance-in-u-s-literature-paperback-softback-9781531507077","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}