02716nam 2200637 a 450 991082342680332120240514025854.01-283-24634-197866132463491-61147-007-2(CKB)2550000000045759(EBL)765278(OCoLC)753480147(SSID)ssj0000533939(PQKBManifestationID)12192844(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000533939(PQKBWorkID)10492379(PQKB)10615392(MiAaPQ)EBC765278(Au-PeEL)EBL765278(CaPaEBR)ebr10496294(CaONFJC)MIL324634(EXLCZ)99255000000004575920110712d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAmerican secrets the politics and poetics of secrecy in the literature and culture of the United States /edited by Eduardo Barros-Grela and José Liste-Noya1st ed.Lanham, Md. Fairleigh Dickinson University Pressc20111 online resource (275 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-61147-006-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.pt. 1. Secret nation/nation of secrets -- pt. 2. Secret selves -- pt. 3. (The) other('s) secrets.Predicated upon the principles of political freedom, cultural openness, religious tolerance, individual self-reliance and ethnic diversity, the United States of America has been tempted recurrently by the lures of the secret. This political, historical and cultural phenomenon is explored here from many, often surprisingly overlapping angles in these analyses of the literary and cultural uses and abuses of secrecy within a democratic culture. These essays reveal the politics within the poetics and, indissociably, the poetics fueling the politics of secrecy in its ambivalent deployment.American literatureHistory and criticismSecrecy in literatureSecrecyPolitical aspectsUnited StatesSecrecySocial aspectsUnited StatesAmerican literatureHistory and criticism.Secrecy in literature.SecrecyPolitical aspectsSecrecySocial aspects810.9/355Barros-Grela Eduardo1974-1715843Listé-Noya Jose1962-1715844MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910823426803321American secrets4110781UNINA