Chad Weidner's "The Green Ghost" (2016)

Carbondale, Illinois, US: Southern Illinois University Press (book, essays), 2016.
9" x 6" x 0.5", 200 pages, softcover, ISBN 978-0-8093-3486-5.

The Green Ghost: William Burroughs and the Ecological Mind by Chad Weidner, as published as a softcover by Southern Illinois University Press (Carbondale, Illinois, US) in 2016.

This book explores William S. Burroughs' writings and the ecological concerns and arguments therein.

Contents: 

• Acknowledgments
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Burning Bones: The Limits of Material Culture and the Toxic Human in Naked Lunch
• 3. Mutable Forms: The Proto-ecology of Early Cut-ups from Minutes to Go and The Yage Letters
• 4. A Land of Grass without Mirrors: The Dada Ecopoetics of Moving Images in William Burroughs' Nova Express and Vèra Chytilova's Sedmikrásky (Daisies)
• 5. The Retroactive Pastoral: Comic Dark Ecology, Deep Green Resistance, and the Romantic Plastic Indian in the Red Night Trilogy
• 6. Terrestrial Creatures: Problematizing the Animal and Empathizing the Human in The Cat Inside
• 7, A Blackness Too Pure: The Elegy of Ecophagy in Ghost of Chance
• Afterword
• Notes
• Works Cited
• Index