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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457250303321

Titolo

I sing the body politic [[electronic resource] ] : history as prophecy in contemporary American literature / / edited by Peter Swirski

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montreal ; ; Ithaca, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2009

ISBN

0-7735-7628-2

9786612866739

1-282-86673-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (223 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SwirskiPeter <1963->

Disciplina

813/.5409358

Soggetti

American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Literature and history - United States

Literature and society - United States

Motion pictures - United States - History - 20th century

Politics and literature - United States

Electronic books.

United States In literature

United States In motion pictures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: history repeats itself repeats itself -- Stupidity's progress: Philip Roth and twentieth-century American history / David Rampton -- The historature of the American empire: Joseph Heller's Picture this / Peter Swirski -- The American wars: history and prophecy in Vietnam, the Gulf, and Iraq / Michael Zeitlin -- Spike Lee, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X: the politics of domination and difference / Gordon E. Slethaug -- Living in fictitious times: Michael Moore's awful truth about America / Nicholas Ruddick.