Title I sing the body politic : history as prophecy in contemporary American literature / edited by Peter Swirski

Published Montreal ; Ithaca, NY : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (214 pages) Contents 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 Summary Annotation A critical investigation of the dead ends, dead metaphors, dead bodies, and other historical constants of American politics Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-199) and index Notes Print version record SUBJECT USA Government gnd Subject American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism Literature and history -- United States -- History -- 20th century Politics and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century Motion pictures -- United States -- History -- 20th century Literature and history -- United States Politics and literature -- United States American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. HISTORY -- United States -- 21st Century. American fiction American literature Literature Literature and history Motion pictures Politics and literature Politik Literatur Kunst Film SUBJECT United States -- In literature United States -- In motion pictures. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85141046 Subject United States USA (Motiv) Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book Author Swirski, Peter, 1966- ISBN 9780773576285 0773576282

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