Dawson / Schueller Exceptional State

Contemporary U.S. Culture and the New Imperialism
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8964-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 322 Seiten

Reihe: New Americanists

Explores the role culture plays in legitimating, unsettling, and contesting America's aggressively interventionist foreign policy since 9/11.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dawson, Ashley

Schueller, Malini Johar

Weitere Mitwirkende

Rowe, John Carlos

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction: Rethinking Imperialism Today / Ashley Dawson and Malini Johar Schueller 1

Part 1: Technologies of Imperialism

Culture, US Imperialism, and Globalization / John Carlos Rowe 37

Between the Homeland and Abu Ghraib: Dwelling in Bush’s Biopolitical Settlement / Donald E. Pease 60

Planet America: The Revolution in Military Affairs as Fantasy and Fetish / Christian Parenti 88

Hegemony and Rights: On the Liberal Justification for Empire / Omar Dahbour 105

Part 2: Engendering Imperialism

Updating the Gendered Empire: Where Are the Women of Occupied Afghanistan and Iraq? / Cynthia Enloe 133

Techno-Dominance and Torturegate: The Making of US Imperialism / Malini Johar Schueller 162

Part 3: Imagining Others

Left Behind and the Politics of Prophecy Talk / Melani McAlister 191

Putting an Old Africa on Our Map: British Imperial Legacies and Contemporary US Culture / Harilaos Stecopoulos 221

New Modes of Anti-imperialism / Ashley Dawson 248

Coda: Information Mastery and the Culture of Annihilation / Ashley Dawson and Malini Johar Schueller 275

Bibliography 285

Contributors 301

Index 303

Über Autor(innen)

Ashley Dawson is Associate Professor of English at the City University of New York, College of Staten Island. He is author of Mongrel Nation: Diasporic Culture and the Making of Postcolonial Britain.Malini Johar Schueller is Professor of English at the University of Florida. She is the author of U.S. Orientalisms: Race, Nation, and Gender in Literature, 1790–1890 and The Politics of Voice: Liberalism and Social Criticism From Franklin to Kingston and a coeditor of Messy Beginnings: Postcoloniality and Early American Studies.