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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810465303321

Titolo

Exceptional state : contemporary U.S. culture and the new imperialism / / edited by Ashley Dawson and Malini Johar Schueller

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham, : Duke University Press, c2007

ISBN

1-283-02311-3

9786613023117

0-8223-8964-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (323 p.)

Collana

New Americanists

Altri autori (Persone)

DawsonAshley <1965->

SchuellerMalini Johar <1957->

Disciplina

973.931

Soggetti

Political culture - United States

Popular culture - United States

Imperialism

Militarism - United States

Globalization - Political aspects - United States

Millennialism - Political aspects - United States

Imperialism in literature

United States Foreign relations 2001-2009

United States Civilization 1970-

United States Military policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-300) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : rethinking imperialism today / Ashley Dawson and Malini Johar Schueller -- Culture, US imperialism, and globalization / John Carlos Rowe -- Between the homeland and Abu Ghraib : dwelling in Bush's biopolitical settlement / Donald E. Pease -- Planet America : the revolution in military affairs as fantasy and fetish / Christian Parenti -- Hegemony and rights : on the liberal justification for empire / Omar Dahbour -- Updating the gendered empire : where are the women of occupied Afghanistan and Iraq? / Cynthia Enloe -- Techno-dominance and torturegate : the making of US imperialism / Malini Johar Schueller -- Left behind and the politics of prophecy talk / Melani McAlister --



Putting an old Africa on our map : British imperial legacies and contemporary US culture / Harilaos Stecopoulos -- New modes of anti-imperialism / Ashley Dawson -- Coda : information mastery and the culture of annihilation / Ashley Dawson and Malini Johar Schueller.

Sommario/riassunto

Explores the role culture plays in legitimating, unsettling, and contesting America's aggressively interventionist foreign policy since 9/11.