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