Patrick O'Donnell

Latent Destinies

Cultural Paranoia and Contemporary U.S. Narrative

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Produktbeschreibung

""Latent Destinies" provides a smartly informed paradigm for understanding postmodern U.S. narratives, both aesthetic and theoretical. Examining a representative sample of these, O'Donnell finds that they indulge a cultural paranoia that wags the tail of their late-capitalist "bete noire.""--Louis A. Renza, Dartmouth College

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 158mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 526g
• ISBN-13: 9780822325581
• ISBN-10: 0822325586
• Artikelnr.: 21611227

Autorenporträt

Patrick O’Donnell is Professor and Chair of the Department of English at Michigan State University. He is author of Echo Chambers: Figuring the Voice in Modern Narrative and Passionate Doubts: Designs of Interpretation in Contemporary American Fiction.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Entry: The Time of Paranoia
> 1. Postmodernity and the Symptom of Paranoia
The Sympton of Paranoia
> Paranoia and History: Latent Destiny
Postmodern Temporalities
2. Headshots: The Theater of Paranoia
Branch-Work: Libra
> Stone’s Oedipus: JFK
> Performing Character: Oswald’s Tale
3. Engendering Paranoia
The Point of the Cry: The Crying of Lot 49
> The Umbra of Difference: The Shadow Knows
> Exposing Paranoia: Empire of the Senseless
4. Criminality and Paranoia
The Voice of Paranoia: The Executioner’s Song
> The Cultural Logic of Paranoia: The Killer Inside Me
Men in Black: Reservoir Dogs
Exit: Under History: Underworld
Notes
Bibliography