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T1 “Squinting through Gunsmoke”: William Burrough’s Errant, Worlded West
T2 “Squinting through Gunsmoke”: El Oeste errante de William Burroughs
A1 Campbell, Neil
K1 Errantry
K1 the American West
K1 Worlding
K1 Cut-ups
AB William Burroughs had been challenging closed worlds since the 1960s. Haunted by theWest, born in St Louis, Missouri and dying in Lawrence, Kansas, it was as if he knewAmerica’s inheritance was seeded on the frontier and his characters were caught up in aconditioned cycle of mythic action. His fiction, with its wild experimentation, hallucinogeniccut-up forms, and extreme states of dislocation strove to interrupt such mythic systems andcycles through what I term in this chapter errantry. Burroughs’ fiction presents alternative,errant worldings – carnivalesque plural worlds that refuse to fit into a presupposed pattern,always wandering astray from prescribed paths.
PB Servicio de Publicaciones, Universidad de La Laguna
SN e-2530-8335
YR 2024
FD 2024
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RD 27-nov-2024