‘The American Non-Dream’

This paper discusses the tropes of addiction and the grotesque body as William S. Burroughs’ paradigms for social control and subversion, further illustrating how they refer to the social, political, and economic context of the United States in the post-war decades. To do this, it highlights dynami...

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Main Author: Elisa Sabbadin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Università degli Studi di Torino 2023-05-01
Series:JAm It!
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Online Access:https://ojs.unito.it/index.php/jamit/article/view/6414