Democratic Anarchy: Aesthetics and Political Resistance in U.S. Literature

by Matthew Scully

A dramatic and necessary rethinking of the meaning of Democracy

Democratic Anarchy grapples with an uncomfortable but obvious truth inimical to democracy: both aesthetics and politics depend on the structuring antagonism of inclusion and exclusion. Yet in Democratic Anarchy, Matthew Scully asks, how can "the people" be represented in a way that acknowledges what remains unrepresentable? What would it mean to face up...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1531507069
• ISBN13: 9781531507060
• Release Date: July 2024
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 256 Pages