Burroughs Unbound

In addition to contributing significantly to the growing field of Burroughs scholarship <i>Burroughs Unbound</i> also directly engages with the growing fields of textual studies archival research and genetic criticism asking crucial questions thereby about the nature of archives and their relationship to a writer's work.<br/><br/>These questions about the archive concern not only the literary medium. In the 1960s and 1970s Burroughs collaborated with filmmakers sound technicians and musicians who helped re-contextualized his writings in other media. <i>Burroughs Unbound</i> examines these collaborations and explores how such multiple authorship complicates the authority of the archive as a final or complete repository of an author's work. It takes Burroughs seriously as a radical theorist and practitioner who critiqued drug laws sexual practice censorship and what we today call a society of control. More broadly his work continues to challenge our common assumptions about language authorship textual stability and the archive in its broadest definition.