Ghost of Chance
Title | Ghost of Chance |
Year for Search | 1991 |
Authors | Burroughs, William S[eward](1914-97) |
Date Published | 1991 |
Publisher | Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art |
Place Published | New York |
Keywords | Male author, US author |
Annotation | Complex short work that includes a suggestion of a eutopia based on Libertalia settlement possibly established by the pirate Captain Misson (ca 1660-ca 1690s) on Madagascar together with an authoritarian dystopia that fails to contain plagues unleashed by its own actions. 1981 Burroughs is also partially based on the pirate settlement. |
Additional Publishers | Rpt. London: Serpent's Tail, 1995. |
Author Note | (1914-97) |
Full Text | 1991 Burroughs, William S[eward] (1914-97). Ghost of Chance. New York: Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art. Rpt. London: Serpent’s Tail, 1995. Complex short work that includes a suggestion of a eutopia based on Libertalia settlement possibly established by the pirate Captain Misson (ca 1660-ca 1690s) on Madagascar together with an authoritarian dystopia that fails to contain plagues unleashed by its own actions. 1981 Burroughs is also partially based on the pirate settlement. See also 1959, 1961, 1962, 1964, 1973, 1979, 1983, and 1987 Burroughs. |