Lindsey Michael Banco

Travel and Drugs in Twentieth-Century Literature (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136096907
• Artikelnr.: 45135095

Autorenporträt

Lindsey Banco is Assistant Professor of English at Nipissing University.

Inhaltsangabe

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