Shock and awe :: American exceptionalism and the imperatives of the spectacle in Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court /

Inspired by the foreign policy entanglements of the early twenty-first century, the author offers a dramatic interpretation of Twain's classic A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, providing an assessment of American exceptionalism and the place of a global America in the American i...

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1. Verfasser: Spanos, William V.
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Hanover, New Hampshire : Dartmouth College Press, [2013]
Schriftenreihe:Re-mapping the transnational.
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Zusammenfassung:Inspired by the foreign policy entanglements of the early twenty-first century, the author offers a dramatic interpretation of Twain's classic A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, providing an assessment of American exceptionalism and the place of a global America in the American imaginary. The author asserts that Twain identifies with his protagonist, particularly in his defining use of the spectacle, and thus with an American exceptionalism that uncannily anticipates the George W. Bush administration's normalization of the state of exception and the imperial policy of "preemptive war," unilateral "regime change," and "shock and awe" tactics.
Beschreibung:1 online resource
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:1299850952
9781299850958
1611684633
9781611684636

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