Hope isn't stupid : utopian affects in contemporary American literature /
"Hope Isn't Stupid is the first study to interrogate the neglected connections between affect and the practice of utopia in contemporary American literature. Although these concepts are rarely theorized together, it is difficult to fully articulate utopia without understanding how affects...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Iowa City :
University Of Iowa Press,
[2017]
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| Series: | New American canon.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt20q23mz |
Table of Contents:
- A Grenade with the Fuse Lit: William S. Burroughs and Retroactive Utopias
- Monstrous Utopia in Toni Morrison's Paradise
- Whither Revolution? Thomas Pynchon and Collective Possibility
- Solitude, Affect, and Utopia in Colson Whitehead's The Intuitionist
- Musical Fandom and the Limits of Utopian Possibility
- Afterword.