David Kelman

Counterfeit Politics

Secret Plots and Conspiracy Narratives in the Americas

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Produktbeschreibung

In Counterfeit Politics, David Kelman reassesses the political significance of conspiracy theory.

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Produktdetails

• Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature and Theory
• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 488g
• ISBN-13: 9781611484144
• ISBN-10: 1611484146
• Artikelnr.: 36182079

Autorenporträt

David Kelman is assistant professor of English and Comparative Literature at California State University, Fullerton.  He has published articles in New Vico Studies, CR: The New Centennial Review, Comparative Literature, Pynchon Notes, and Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture.  

Inhaltsangabe

Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Usurpations, or the End of Politics
1. Reading for the Complot A Secret History of the Word "Plot" The Complot
Effect (Piglia) The Unsaid (Hemingway) Waiting for Something or Other
(Reed) 2. Politics in the Age of the Imaginative Leap The Imaginative Leap
(Hofstadter and the HSCA Report) Catachrestic Tales, or What is a Political
Event? (DeLillo) Kennedy Assassinations, or What (Un)makes a Political
Event? (Volpi) 3. Why Hidden Figures Matter for Politics Pynchon's Parasite
(The Crying of Lot 49) Menchú's Political Traps (I, Rigoberta Menchú) 4.
The Discovery of Politics The Tlönian Invasion, or Politics at Risk
(Borges) The Ruins of Politics (Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow) Epilogue:
Counterfeit Politics (Piglia's The Absent City) Bibliography