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Burroughs Unbound
William S. Burroughs and the Performance of Writing
S. E. Gontarski, S. E. Gontarski
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Burroughs Unbound
William S. Burroughs and the Performance of Writing
S. E. Gontarski, S. E. Gontarski
About This Book
In addition to contributing significantly to the growing field of Burroughs scholarship, Burroughs Unbound also directly engages with the growing fields of textual studies, archival research, and genetic criticism, asking crucial questions thereby about the nature of archives and their relationship to a writer's work. These questions about the archive concern not only the literary medium. In the 1960s and 1970s Burroughs collaborated with filmmakers, sound technicians, and musicians, who helped re-contextualized his writings in other media. Burroughs Unbound examines these collaborations and explores how such multiple authorship complicates the authority of the archive as a final or complete repository of an author's work. It takes Burroughs seriously as a radical theorist and practitioner who critiqued drug laws, sexual practice, censorship, and what we today call a society of control. More broadly, his work continues to challenge our common assumptions about language, authorship, textual stability, and the archive in its broadest definition.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Title
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Burroughs Unbound: An Atrophied Introduction
- Part I Theory
- Part II Texts
- Part III Performance
- Appendix A: Evergreen on the Air: Barney Rosset on Censorship and Publishing Naked Lunch
- Appendix B: Lectures on the Virus, May 3–8, 1974, Burroughs Archive at Ohio State University
- Appendix C: Burroughs Manifest, Burroughs Archive at Florida State University, September 12, 1980, purchase
- Appendix D: Supplemental Bucher Burroughs Purchases, December 12, 1990
- Appendix E: Burroughs and Bucher, Correspondence and Notes 1978–9, 1984
- Appendix F: “A 30-Year Wait. A 16-Mile Journey.” The Story of the “Lost” Burroughs Archive at Florida State University
- List of Contributors
- Index
- Copyright