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American Secrets
. Ed(S): Liste-Noya, Jose; Barros-Grella, Eduardo
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Description for American Secrets
Hardback. Editor(s): Liste-Noya, Jose; Barros-Grella, Eduardo. Num Pages: 274 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 237 x 23. Weight in Grams: 578.
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 Mark 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 ... Read more
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 Mark 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
Number of pages
274
Condition
New
Number of Pages
274
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781611470062
SKU
V9781611470062
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About . Ed(S): Liste-Noya, Jose; Barros-Grella, Eduardo
Eduardo Barros is postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of English at Universidade da Coruña, Spain. José Liste Noya teaches American literature at the Universidade da Coruña in northwestern Spain.
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