Grattan, Sean (2010) A Grenade With the Fuse Lit: William S. Burroughs and Retroactive Utopias in Cities of the Red Night. Utopian Studies, 21 (1). pp. 118-138. ISSN 10.1353. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:55262)
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Abstract
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.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: |
P Language and Literature P Language and Literature > PS American literature |
| Divisions: | Divisions > Division of Arts and Humanities > School of English |
| Depositing User: | Kate Smith |
| Date Deposited: | 05 May 2016 08:50 UTC |
| Last Modified: | 16 Nov 2021 10:22 UTC |
| Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/55262 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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