"Empire Burlesque" traces the emergence of the contemporary global
context within which American critical identity is formed. Daniel
T. O'Hara argues that globalization has had a markedly negative
impact on American cultural criticism, circumscribing both its
material and imaginative potential, reducing much of it to
absurdity. By highlighting the spectacle of its own self-parody,
O'Hara aims to shock U.S. cultural criticism back into a sense of
ethical responsibility.
"Empire Burlesque" presents several interrelated analyses
through readings of a range of writers and cultural figures
including Henry James, Freud, Said, De Man, Derrida, and Cordwainer
Smith (an academic, spy, and classic 1950s and 1960s science
fiction writer). It describes the debilitating effects of
globalization on the university in general and the field of
literary studies in particular, it critiques literary studies'
embrace of globalization theory in the name of a blind and vacant
modernization, and it meditates on the ways critical reading and
writing can facilitate an imaginative alternative to
institutionalized practices of modernization. Drawing on Lacanian
psychoanalytical theory, it diagnoses contemporary American Studies
as typically driven by the mindless abjection and transference of
professional identities.
A provocative commentary on contemporary cultural criticism,
"Empire Burlesque" will inform debates on the American university
across the humanities, particularly among those in literary
criticism, cultural studies, and American studies.
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