02970nam 2200661Ia 450 991045113430332120200520144314.01-280-05981-80-203-50385-6(CKB)1000000000254981(EBL)183031(OCoLC)437056317(SSID)ssj0000303128(PQKBManifestationID)11249153(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000303128(PQKBWorkID)10274973(PQKB)11540976(MiAaPQ)EBC183031(Au-PeEL)EBL183031(CaPaEBR)ebr10094283(CaONFJC)MIL5981(EXLCZ)99100000000025498120040130d2004 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe metanarrative of suspicion in late twentieth century America[electronic resource] /Sandra BaringerNew York Routledge20041 online resource (176 p.)Literary criticism and cultural theoryDescription based upon print version of record.0-415-86148-9 0-415-97076-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-167) and index.Cover; LITERARY CRITICISM AND CULTURAL THEORY; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE Crucifying the White Man Douglass Durham and the Master Narrative of the Seventies Savage; CHAPTER TWO Lynching the White Woman William Pierce's "Day of the Rope"; CHAPTER THREE Women's Work? Child Sexual Abuse Prosecution in the 1980s; CHAPTER FOUR Motherhood and Treason Pynchon's Vineland and the New Left; CHAPTER FIVE Motherhood and Terror Silko's Almanac of the DeadCHAPTER SIX Beyond the Foucauldian Complex Inscriptions and Reinscriptions of the Power Paradigm by American Prison WritersEpilogue; Notes; Works Cited; IndexNarratives of suspicion and mistrust have escaped the boundaries of specific sites of discourse to constitue a metanarrative that pervades American culture. Sandra Baringer investigates this phenomenon.Literary criticism and cultural theory.American literature20th centuryHistory and criticismSuspicion in literatureLiterature and societyUnited StatesHistory20th centuryNarration (Rhetoric)Electronic books.American literatureHistory and criticism.Suspicion in literature.Literature and societyHistoryNarration (Rhetoric)810.9/3556Baringer Sandra939069MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451134303321The metanarrative of suspicion in late twentieth century America2116724UNINA