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03441aam a2200409 i 4500 001 26730B72D98A11E78F813B5397128E48 003 SILO 005 20171205010050 008 170511s2017 iau b s001 0 eng 010 $a 2017005565 020 $a 1609385217 020 $a 9781609385217 035 $a (OCoLC)983823624 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d BTCTA $d YDX $d BDX $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d OBE $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS374 U8 G73 2017 100 1 $a Grattan, Sean Austin, $e author. 245 10 $a Hope isn't stupid : $b utopian affects in contemporary American literature / $c Sean Austin Grattan. 246 30 $a Utopian affects in contemporary American literature 264 1 $a Iowa City : $b University of Iowa Press, $c [2017] 300 $a ix, 190 pages ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a The new American canon 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-184) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction : Utopia/Affect -- A Grenade with the Fuse Lit : William S. Burroughs and Retroactive Utopias -- Monstrous Utopia in Toni Morrison's Paradise -- Whither Revolution? : Thomas Pynchon and Collective Possibility -- Solitude, Affect, and Utopia in Colson Whitehead's The Intuitionist -- Musical Fandom and the Limits of Utopian Possibility -- Afterword. 520 $a "Hope Isn't Stupid is the first study to interrogate the neglected connections between affect and the practice of utopia in contemporary American literature. Although these concepts are rarely theorized together, it is difficult to fully articulate utopia without understanding how affects circulate within utopian texts. Moving away from science fiction--the genre in which utopian visions are often located--author Sean Grattan resuscitates the importance of utopianism in recent American literary history. Doing so enables him to assert the pivotal role contemporary American literature has to play in allowing us to envision alternatives to global neoliberal capitalism. Novelists William S. Burroughs, Dennis Cooper, John Darnielle, Toni Morrison, Thomas Pynchon, and Colson Whitehead are deeply invested in the creation of utopian possibilities. A return to reading the utopian wager in literature from the postmodern to the contemporary period reinvigorates critical forms that imagine reading as an act of communication, friendship, solace, and succor. These forms also model richer modes of belonging than the diluted and impoverished ones on display in the neoliberal present. Simultaneously, by linking utopian studies and affect studies, Grattan's work resists the tendency for affect studies to codify around the negative, instead reorienting the field around the messy, rich, vibrant, and ambivalent affective possibilities of the world. Hope Isn't Stupid insists on the centrality of utopia not only in American literature, but in American life as well"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Utopias in literature. 650 0 $a American fiction $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a American fiction $y 21st century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Affect (Psychology) in literature. 650 0 $a Hope in literature. 650 0 $a Ambivalence in literature. 830 0 $a New American canon. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180710065545.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20180104062033.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=26730B72D98A11E78F813B5397128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search