For moral ambiguity : national culture and the politics of the family / Michael J. Shapiro.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shapiro, Michael J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Families in literature.

Families in motion pictures.

Families--Moral and ethical aspects.

Families.

Families--Political aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Under the banner of family values, a war of more than words is being waged. At stake is the control of contemporary national culture-and the consciousness of succeeding generations. Michael J. Shapiro enters the fray with this galvanizing book, which exposes the assumptions, misconceptions, and historical inaccuracies that mark the neoconservative campaign to redeem an imagined past and colonize the present and future with a moral and political commitment to the ""traditional family.""

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Resisting Resolution: Genre and the Family; 2. Contingency, Genealogy, and the Family; 3. Families, Strategies, Interests, and Public Life; 4. Literary Geography and Sovereign Violence: Resisting Tocqueville's Family Romance; 5. National Times and Other Times: Rethinking Citizenship; 6. Sovereignty, Dissymmetry, and Bare Life; Afterword; Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-206) and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-9311-0

OCLC:

560511256