{"product_id":"no-exit-seth-mckelvey-9780813953076","title":"No Exit: Contemporary American Literature and the State","description":"\u003cb\u003eAmerica's authors and the unfulfilled desire to escape the state\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e From hippie culture to neoliberalism to Black Lives Matter, anti-state sentiment and rhetoric persists through varying--and sometimes electorally opposed--forms in American politics and culture. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Examining the work of some of the leading authors of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries--including William Carlos Williams, Charles Olson, Richard Wright, Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, Joan Didion, Karen Tei Yamashita, Junot D?az, Juliana Spahr, and Nathaniel Mackey--Seth McKelvey offers a new perspective on American literature's many conceptions of an escape from the political state. Through close readings of texts varied in their political orientations, historical concerns, literary genres, and aesthetic commitments, \u003ci\u003eNo Exit\u003c\/i\u003e reveals a provocative overlap between literary and political representation, showing just how urgent yet difficult it has been for American literature to imagine leaving the state behind.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Seth McKelvey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0813953073\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813953076\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Virginia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/02\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Seth McKelvey","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46431583699199,"sku":"9780813953076","price":39.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2d74ff03-a958-4db1-9ed2-8d3ee7a20a66.jpg?v=1735141773","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/no-exit-seth-mckelvey-9780813953076","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}