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Samuel Chase CoalePublication Details
BookUniversity of Alabama Press2005Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PS374.C594 C63 2005 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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Though scholars have suggested that in modern times the JFK assassination initiated an industry of conspiracy (i.e., Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers, Area 51, Iran-Contra Affair), Samuel Chase Coale reminds us in this book that conspiracy is foundational in American culture–from the apocalyptic Biblical narratives in early Calvinist households to the fear of Mormon, Catholic, Jewish, and immigrant populations in the 19th century. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
- American fiction — 20th century — History and criticism
- Conspiracies in literature
- Politics and literature — United States — History — 20th century
- Conspiracies — United States — History — 20th century
- Political fiction, American — History and criticism
- Paranoia — United States — History — 20th century
- Postmodernism (Literature) — United States
- Paranoia in literature
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Contents
- The conspiracy of postmodernism as suspect and sublime
- Conspiracy and apocalypse in popular culture
- Conspiracy in fiction: from Da Vinci to Damascus
- Joan Didion: the fatal glamour of conspiracy
- Don DeLillo: mystic musings in a paranoid’s paradise
- Thomas Pynchon: the functions of conspiracy and the performance of paranoia
- Toni Morrison’s trilogy of obsession: ‘Something rogue’ and conspiracy’s comeuppance
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- 0817314474
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