Title The metanarrative of suspicion in late twentieth century America / Sandra Baringer

Published New York : Routledge, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 176 pages) : illustrations Series Literary criticism and cultural theory Literary criticism and cultural theory. Contents 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 Notes Print version record Subject American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism Suspicion in literature. Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century Narration (Rhetoric) LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. American literature Literature and society Narration (Rhetoric) Suspicion in literature United States Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 0203503856 9780203503850

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