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American secrets : the politics and poetics of secrecy in the literature and culture of the United States
- Title
- American secrets : the politics and poetics of secrecy in the literature and culture of the United States / edited by Eduardo Barros-Grela and Jose Listé-Noya.
- Publication
- Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2011.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 11-3957 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- vii, 265 p.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- "None but the dead are permitted to tell the truth": Mark Twain's missives to the future / Shelley Fisher Fishkin -- The ultimate secrecy: feminist readings of masculine trauma in Vietnam War literature / Carmen Méndez Garcia -- (Don't) trust the U.S. government: Paul Greengrass's United 93 and the 9/11 conspiracy theories / Esther Pérez Villalba -- The desert as a national sacrifice zone: the nuclear controversy in Nevada fiction / David Río -- Hidden truths and open lies: the performance of U.S. history and mythography in Tony Kushner's Angels in America and its film adaptation / Boris Vejdovsky -- Dirty laundry on the line: staging the nation in contemporary U.S. drama and performance / Robert Vorlicky -- Lolita, the secret of/in Lolita: "poerotics" of secrecy / Marie C. Bouchet -- American secrets on the road toward the west / Carmen Induráin Eraso -- Family secrets: carving identity out of silence in borderlands/ La Frontera / Inmaculada Lara Bonilla -- The black sheep I am: Anne Sexton, madness, and the performance of confession / Steve Schessler -- Dickinson, doubt, and the skeptical argument: notes for a defense of the unspoken / Paul Scott Derrick -- Enabling secrecy: hermeneutics, the lyric, and Dickinson's poem 340 / Jefferey Simons -- Whispers in the wind, visions in the fog: nature's secrets in Linda Hogan's novels / Carmen Flys Junquera -- Blood on the tire iron: battle on secret ideological frontiers in "Brokeback mountain" / Christian Hummelsund Voie -- Secret links in Edwidge Danticat's The dew breaker: reflections on another composite novel by an ethnic writer / Aitor Ibarrola-Armendáriz -- AIDS: the disease with no name?: Jamaica Kincaid's My brother (1997) / María Frías.
- Call Number
- JFE 11-3957
- ISBN
- 9781611470062 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 1611470064 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9781611470079 (electronic)
- 1611470072 (electronic)
- LCCN
- 2011026703
- OCLC
- 724674343
- Title
- American secrets : the politics and poetics of secrecy in the literature and culture of the United States / edited by Eduardo Barros-Grela and Jose Listé-Noya.
- Imprint
- Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2011.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Barros-Grela, Eduardo, 1974-Listé-Noya, Jose, 1962-
- Research Call Number
- JFE 11-3957