This book examines the connections between two disparate yet persistently bound thematics -- mobility and intoxication -- and explores their central yet frequently misunderstood role in constructing subjectivity following the 1960s.
This book examines the connections between two disparate yet persistently bound thematics -- mobility and intoxication -- and explores their central yet frequently misunderstood role in constructing subjectivity following the 1960s.
Lindsey Banco is Assistant Professor of English at Nipissing University.
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Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Set and Setting 1: "Causing Frameworks to Shift": Theorizing Tripping 2: Starting Selves: Aldous Huxley and William S. Burroughs Part II: Drugs and the Disciplinary Power of Utopian Travel 3: The Permeable Self and the Horrors of Consumption: Aldous Huxley's Island 4: What's He Smoking?: Cannabis and Cigarettes in Alex Garland's The Beach Part III: Drugs and the Revisions of Anti-Tourism 5: "Man, This Is the Way to Travel": Seeing Vegas Anew in Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 6: Eating In Africa: Becoming-Animal in Robert Sedlack's The African Safari Papers Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Set and Setting 1: "Causing Frameworks to Shift": Theorizing Tripping 2: Starting Selves: Aldous Huxley and William S. Burroughs Part II: Drugs and the Disciplinary Power of Utopian Travel 3: The Permeable Self and the Horrors of Consumption: Aldous Huxley's Island 4: What's He Smoking?: Cannabis and Cigarettes in Alex Garland's The Beach Part III: Drugs and the Revisions of Anti-Tourism 5: "Man, This Is the Way to Travel": Seeing Vegas Anew in Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 6: Eating In Africa: Becoming-Animal in Robert Sedlack's The African Safari Papers Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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