I sing the body politic [[electronic resource] ] : history as prophecy in contemporary American literature / / edited by Peter Swirski

• Autore: Swirski Peter
• Pubblicazione: Montreal ; ; Ithaca, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (223 p.)
• Disciplina: 813/.5409358
• Soggetto topico: American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism; Literature and history - United States; Literature and society - United States; Motion pictures - United States - History - 20th century; Politics and literature - United States
• Soggetto geografico: United States In literature; United States In motion pictures
• Altri autori: SwirskiPeter <1963->
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: A critical investigation of the dead ends, dead metaphors, dead bodies, and other historical constants of American politics.
• Titolo autorizzato: I sing the body politic
• ISBN: 0-7735-8493-5; 0-7735-7628-2; 9786612866739; 1-282-86673-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910781685303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II