A Grenade With the Fuse Lit: William S. Burroughs and Retroactive Utopias in Cities of the Red Night
| Autor: | Sean Grattan |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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| Zdroj: | Utopian Studies. 21:118-138 |
| ISSN: | 2154-9648 1045-991X |
| DOI: | 10.5325/utopianstudies.21.1.0118 |
| Popis: | In 1981, William S. Burroughs—often considered a writer of devastatingly apocalyptic dystopian vision—published “Cities of the Red Night,” his first foray into utopian writing. This article examines Burroughs’s conception of the “retroactive utopia.” It highlights Burroughs’s ambivalence toward utopian projects and invokes both his hope and his disappointment in the ability for utopian writing to engender political change. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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