Exceptional State (eBook, PDF)

Contemporary U.S. Culture and the New Imperialism
Redaktion: Ashley Dawson, Dawson

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Produktbeschreibung

Exceptional State analyzes the nexus of culture and contemporary manifestations of U.S. imperialism. The contributors, established and emerging cultural studies scholars, define culture broadly to include a range of media, literature, and political discourse. They do not posit September 11, 2001 as the beginning of U.S. belligerence and authoritarianism at home and abroad, but they do provide context for understanding U.S. responses to and uses of that event. Taken together, the essays stress both the continuities and discontinuities embodied in a present-day U.S. imperialism constituted through expressions of millennialism, exceptionalism, technological might, and visions of world dominance.The contributors address a range of topics, paying particular attention to the dynamics of gender and race. Their essays include a surprising reading of the ostensibly liberal movies Wag the Dog and Three Kings, an exploration of the rhetoric surrounding the plan to remake the military into a high-tech force less dependent on human bodies, a look at the significance of the popular Left Behind series of novels, and an interpretation of the Abu Ghraib prison photos. They scrutinize the national narrative created to justify the U.S. invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, the ways that women in those countries have responded to the invasions, the contradictions underlying calls for U.S. humanitarian interventions, and the role of Africa in the U.S. imperial imagination. The volume concludes on a hopeful note, with a look at an emerging anti-imperialist public sphere.Contributors. Omar Dahbour, Ashley Dawson, Cynthia Enloe, Melani McAlister, Christian Parenti, Donald E. Pease, John Carlos Rowe, Malini Johar Schueller, Harilaos Stecopoulos

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juni 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822389644
• Artikelnr.: 54819107

Autorenporträt

Ashley Dawson is Associate Professor of English at the City University of New York, College of Staten Island. He is author of Mongrel Nation: Diasporic Culture and the Making of Postcolonial Britain. Malini Johar Schueller is Professor of English at the University of Florida. She is the author of U.S. Orientalisms: Race, Nation, and Gender in Literature, 1790–1890 and The Politics of Voice: Liberalism and Social Criticism From Franklin to Kingston and a coeditor of Messy Beginnings: Postcoloniality and Early American Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Rethinking Imperialism Today / Ashley Dawson and Malini Johar
Schueller 1
Part 1: Technologies of Imperialism
Culture, US Imperialism, and Globalization / John Carlos Rowe 37
Between the Homeland and Abu Ghraib: Dwelling in Bush’s Biopolitical
Settlement / Donald E. Pease 60
Planet America: The Revolution in Military Affairs as Fantasy and Fetish /
Christian Parenti 88
Hegemony and Rights: On the Liberal Justification for Empire / Omar Dahbour
105
Part 2: Engendering Imperialism
Updating the Gendered Empire: Where Are the Women of Occupied Afghanistan
and Iraq? / Cynthia Enloe 133
Techno-Dominance and Torturegate: The Making of US Imperialism / Malini
Johar Schueller 162
Part 3: Imagining Others
Left Behind and the Politics of Prophecy Talk / Melani McAlister 191
Putting an Old Africa on Our Map: British Imperial Legacies and
Contemporary US Culture / Harilaos Stecopoulos 221
New Modes of Anti-imperialism / Ashley Dawson 248
Coda: Information Mastery and the Culture of Annihilation / Ashley Dawson
and Malini Johar Schueller 275
Bibliography 285
Contributors 301
Index 303