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American Secrets
The Politics and Poetics of Secrecy in the Literature and Culture of the United States
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2011
Summary
Predicated upon the principles of political freedom, cultural openness, religious tolerance, individual self-reliance and ethnic diversity, the United States of America has been tempted recurrently by the lures of the secret. American Secrets explores this political, historical and cultural phenomenon from many, often surprisingly overlapping angles in these analyses of the literary and cultural uses and abuses of secrecy within a democratic culture. Through analyses of diverse literary works and cultural manifestations - from Twain's anti-imperialist prophecies to 9/11 conspiracy theories, from the traumas of the Vietnam war to the homophobia of the American military establishment, from the unresolved dilemmas of nuclear politics to the secret ecologies shunted aside by the exploitation of the environment, from the questionings of national identity from the ethnic and (trans)sexual margins to the confessional modes of poetry and the poetics of the unspeakable and unrepresentable - these essays reveal the politics within the poetics and, indissociably, the poetics fueling the politics of secrecy in its ambivalent deployment.
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Bibliographic data
Copyright year
2011
ISBN-Print
978-1-61147-006-2
ISBN-Online
978-1-61147-007-9
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
266
Product type
Edited Book
Table of contents
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 14
“None but the Dead Are Permitted to Tell the Truth” No access
The Ultimate Secrecy No access
(Don’t) Trust the U.S. Government No access
The Desert as a National Sacrifice Zone No access
Hidden Truths and Open Lies No access
Dirty Laundry on the Line No access
Lolita, the Secret of/in Lolita No access
American Secrets on the Road toward the West No access
Family Secrets No access
The Black Sheep I Am No access
Dickinson, Doubt, and the Skeptical Argument No access
Enabling Secrecy No access
Whispers in the Wind, Visions in the Fog No access
Blood on the Tire Iron No access
Secret Links in Edwidge Danticat’s The Dew Breaker No access
