Crucifying the white man : Douglass Durham and the master narrative of the seventies savage -- Lynching the white woman : William Pierce's "day of the rope" -- Women's work? : child sexual abuse prosecution in the 1980s -- Motherhood and treason : Pynchon's Vineland and the new left -- Motherhood and terror : Silko's Almanac of the dead -- Beyond the Foucauldian complex : inscriptions and reinscriptions of the power paradigm by American prison writers
Summary
Narratives of suspicion and mistrust have escaped the boundaries of specific sites of discourse to constitue a metanarrative that pervades American culture. Sandra Baringer investigates this phenomenon
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-167) and index