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I sing the body politic : history as prophecy in contemporary American literature / edited by Peter Swirski.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Swirski, Peter, Author.
- 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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