American exceptionalism in the age of globalization : the specter of Vietnam /

"In American Exceptionalism in the Age of Globalization, William V. Spanos explores three writers - Graham Greene, Philip Caputo, and Tim O'Brien - whose work devastatingly critiques the U.S. intervention in Vietnam and exposes the brutality of the Vietnam War. Utilizing poststructuralist...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Spanos, William V.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2008.
Temas:
1961-1975
American literature > History and criticism.
English literature > History and criticism.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Literature and the war.
Literature and history > United States.
Littérature anglaise > Histoire et critique.
Littérature et histoire > États-Unis.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American literature
English literature
Literature
Literature and history
National characteristics, American, in literature
War and literature
America > In literature.
Amérique > Dans la littérature.
America
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • History and its specter : rethinking thinking in the post-Cold War age
  • Althusser's "problematic" : vision and the Vietnam War
  • Who killed Alden Pyle? : the oversight of oversight in Graham Greene's The quiet American
  • Retrieving the thisness of the Vietnam War : a symptomatic reading of Philip Caputo's A rumor of war
  • "The land is your enemy" : Tim O'Brien's Going after Cacciato
  • American exceptionalism, the Jeremiad, and the frontier, before and after 9/11 : from the Puritans to the neo-con men
  • Conclusion : the Vietnam War, 9/11, and its aftermath.

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