...Matthew Levay Copyright © Hofstra University 2010 Surrealism and the Art of Crime , by Eburne Jonathan P. , Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 2008 . 324 pages. Review Criminal, Political, Surreal Surrealism and the Art of Crime by Jonathan P. Eburne Ithaca: Cornell...

... to articulate a violence-laden cri- tique of Sartre’s “tragic ‘Negro’” via the Harlem Domestic novels’ “vicious and viciously comic multiplication of crime—that is, of political error” (817), as Jonathan Eburne suggests. However, Gilroy’s more utopian read- ings of the translocal solidarity meet...

...). On Inter- zone and the dynamics of racialization and consumption in Burroughs’s text see also Jonathan Eburne. 18. See Harvey, Postmodernity 285-307. 19. On the conception of space in Burroughs see Alex Houen. 20. On sexuality in Naked Lunch see: Jamie Russell, Queer Burroughs, 1-56; and Oliver...

... itself in the troubled self-consciousness of the first-person narrator. In context of The Subterraneans, as Eburne demonstrates in a care­ 185 TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERATURE ful critique of Schaub’s claims, the subjective voice “serves more to alienate...

... social experience” (1994, 107). Sometimes critics afford a self-awareness to Kerouac and other Beat writers in this regard, as with Jonathan Paul Eburne, who argues that both William Burroughs’s and Kerouac’s attempts to “evacuat[e] a bankrupt subject position by identifying with the ‘otherness...

... at odds with the presiding assumptions of contemporary queer theory. Jonathan Paul Eburne contends that Burroughs’s attempts to evacu­ ate “a bankrupt subject position” in Naked Lunch ultimately implicate him in “the same process of normativity and containment that [he] attempts] to leave behind...