03146nam 2200769Ia 450 991078168530332120231206211438.00-7735-8493-50-7735-7628-297866128667391-282-86673-710.1515/9780773576285(CKB)2550000000042137(EBL)3271140(SSID)ssj0000478426(PQKBManifestationID)11320435(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000478426(PQKBWorkID)10419428(PQKB)11434086(CEL)432891(CaBNvSL)slc00225610(Au-PeEL)EBL3332073(CaPaEBR)ebr10559022(CaONFJC)MIL286673(OCoLC)923234697(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/vn1r3t(MiAaPQ)EBC3332073(DE-B1597)654852(DE-B1597)9780773576285(MiAaPQ)EBC3271140(EXLCZ)99255000000004213720090330d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrI sing the body politic[electronic resource] history as prophecy in contemporary American literature /edited by Peter SwirskiMontreal ;Ithaca McGill-Queen's University Pressc20091 online resource (223 p.)0-7735-3633-7 0-7735-3603-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.A critical investigation of the dead ends, dead metaphors, dead bodies, and other historical constants of American politics.American fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismLiterature and historyUnited StatesLiterature and societyUnited StatesMotion picturesUnited StatesHistory20th centuryPolitics and literatureUnited StatesUnited StatesIn literatureUnited StatesIn motion picturesAmerican fictionHistory and criticism.Literature and historyLiterature and societyMotion picturesHistoryPolitics and literature813/.5409358Swirski Peter, authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1064536Swirski Peter1963-874151MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910781685303321I sing the body politic3863851UNINA