Containment culture: American narrative, postmodernism, and the atomic age
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Main Author: Nadel, Alan 1947- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham, NC Duke University Press 1995
Series:New Americanists
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Online Access:DE-703
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Item Description:Introduction -- PART I THE STRAIGHT STORY AND THE DUAL NATURE -- 1. Appearance, Containment, and Atomic Power -- 2. History, Science, and Hiroshima -- PART II CONTAINMENT CULTURE -- 3. Rhetoric, Sanity, and the Cold War: The Significance of Holden Caulfield's Testimony -- 4. God's Law and the Wide Screen: The Ten Commandments as Cold War "Epic" -- 5. Lady and (or) the Tramp: Sexual Containment and the Domestic Playboy -- PART III DOUBLE OR NOTHING -- 6. The Invasion of Postmodernism: The Catch-22 of the Bay of Pigs and Liberty Valance -- 7. The Rules for Free Speech: Speech Act Theory and the Free Speech Movement -- PART IV TWO NATIONS TOO -- 8. My Country Too: Time, Place, and African American Identity in the Work of John A. Williams -- 9. Race, Rights, Gender, and Personal Narrative: The Archaeology of "Self" in Meridian -- CODA DEMOCRACY -- 10. Failed Cultural Narratives: America in the Postwar Era and the Story of Democracy -- Conclusion. - Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 332 Seiten) Illustrationen
ISBN:9780822381976
0822381974
DOI:10.1215/9780822381976

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