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Titolo: |
I sing the body politic : history as prophecy in contemporary American literature / / edited by Peter Swirski
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Pubblicazione: | Montreal ; ; Ithaca, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2009 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
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->
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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.: | 9910815591503321 |
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