{"title":"Street Families and Wild Boys: A Collage for William S. Burroughs","authors":"Joseph T. Thomas","doi":"10.5325/PACICOASPHIL.53.2.0335","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article uses William S. Burroughs’s novel The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead as a mechanism for understanding contemporary constructions of the child. Placing Burroughs’s novel in conversation with Lee Edelman’s No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive, the article explores how Burroughs’s conception of the child (as suggested in The Wild Boys) offers a provocatively powerful alternative to Edelman’s “Child,” the latter lashed forever to “reproductive futurity” whereas the former radically resists it and the conservative, homophobic status quo it serves to perpetuate. There’s also some stuff about actual children, living on the streets or otherwise.","PeriodicalId":41712,"journal":{"name":"Pacific Coast Philology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Pacific Coast Philology","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.5325/PACICOASPHIL.53.2.0335","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:This article uses William S. Burroughs’s novel The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead as a mechanism for understanding contemporary constructions of the child. Placing Burroughs’s novel in conversation with Lee Edelman’s No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive, the article explores how Burroughs’s conception of the child (as suggested in The Wild Boys) offers a provocatively powerful alternative to Edelman’s “Child,” the latter lashed forever to “reproductive futurity” whereas the former radically resists it and the conservative, homophobic status quo it serves to perpetuate. There’s also some stuff about actual children, living on the streets or otherwise.
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Pacific Coast Philology publishes peer-reviewed essays of interest to scholars in the classical and modern languages, literatures, and cultures. The journal publishes two annual issues (one regular and one special issue), which normally contain articles and book reviews, as well as the presidential address, forum, and plenary speech from the preceding year''s conference. Pacific Coast Philology is the official journal of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, a regional branch of the Modern Language Association. PAMLA is dedicated to the advancement and diffusion of knowledge of ancient and modern languages and literatures. Anyone interested in languages and literary studies may become a member. Please visit their website for more information.
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