03052nam 2200769Ia 450 991081559150332120200520144314.00-7735-8493-50-7735-7628-297866128667391-282-86673-710.1515/9780773576285(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 history as prophecy in contemporary American literature /edited by Peter Swirski1st ed.Montreal ;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 Peter1963-874151MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910815591503321I sing the body politic4200992UNINA