Baringer The Metanarrative of Suspicion in Late Twentieth-Century America

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-135-87690-6
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 184 Seiten

Reihe: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

Narratives of suspicion and mistrust have escaped the boundaries of specific sites of discourse to constitue a metanarrative that pervades American culture. Through close reading of texts ranging from novels (Pynchon's Vineland, Silko's Almanac of the Dead, Pierce's The Turner Diaries) to prison literature, this book examines the ways in which narratives of suspicion are both constitutive--and symptomatic--of a metanarrative that pervades American culture.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Baringer, Sandra

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1. Crucifying the White Man: Douglass Durham and the Master Narrative of the Seventies Savage
2. Lunching the White Woman: William Pierce's 'Day of the Rope'
3. Women's Work? Child Sexual Abuse Prosecution in the 1980s
4. Motherhood and Treason: Pynchon's Vineland and the New Left
5. Motherhood and Terror: Silko's Almanac of the Dead
6. Beyond the Foucauldian Complex: Inscriptions and Reinscriptions of the Power Paradigm by American Prison Writers