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

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Swirski, Peter, Author.
Contributor:
Swirski, Peter, 1966-
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
American fiction.
Literature and history--United States.
Literature and history.
Literature and society--United States.
Literature and society.
Motion pictures--United States--History--20th century.
Motion pictures.
Politics and literature--United States.
Politics and literature.
United States--In literature.
United States.
United States--In motion pictures.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (223 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2009.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
A critical investigation of the dead ends, dead metaphors, dead bodies, and other historical constants of American politics.
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.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9786612866739
9780773584938
0773584935
9780773576285
0773576282
9781282866737
1282866737
OCLC:
923234697

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