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The metanarrative of suspicion in late twentieth century America /

Narratives of suspicion and mistrust have escaped the boundaries of specific sites of discourse to constitue a metanarrative that pervades American culture. Sandra Baringer investigates this phenomenon.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Baringer, Sandra
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Routledge, 2004.
Series:Literary criticism and cultural theory.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Crucifying the white man : Douglass Durham and the master narrative of the seventies savage
  • Lynching the white woman : William Pierce's "day of the rope"
  • Women's work? : child sexual abuse prosecution in the 1980s
  • Motherhood and treason : Pynchon's Vineland and the new left
  • Motherhood and terror : Silko's Almanac of the dead
  • Beyond the Foucauldian complex : inscriptions and reinscriptions of the power paradigm by American prison writers.