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American Secrets - The Politics and Poetics of Secrecy in the Literature and Culture of the United States (Hardcover)
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American Secrets - The Politics and Poetics of Secrecy in the Literature and Culture of the United States (Hardcover)
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Predicated upon the principles of political freedom, cultural
openness, religious tolerance, individual self-reliance, and ethnic
diversity, the United States of America has been tempted
recurrently by the lures of the secret. American Secrets explores
this political, historical, and cultural phenomenon from many,
often surprisingly, overlapping angles in these analyses of the
literary and cultural uses and abuses of secrecy within a
democratic culture. Through analyses of diverse literary works and
cultural manifestations-from Mark Twain's anti-imperialist
prophecies to 9/11 conspiracy theories, from the traumas of the
Vietnam war to the homophobia of the American military
establishment, from the unresolved dilemmas of nuclear politics to
the secret ecologies shunted aside by the exploitation of the
environment, from the questionings of national identity on the
ethnic and (trans)sexual margins to the confessional modes of
poetry and the poetics of the unspeakable and unrepresentable-these
essays reveal the politics within the poetics and, indissociably,
the poetics fueling the politics of secrecy in its ambivalent
deployment. Secrecy often seems to be a question without an answer
or an answer that either seems to beg the question or to be a
question itself. These essays address this paradox with their own
questioning explorations. In answering such questions, the volume
as a whole provides an illuminating overview of the pervasiveness
of the secret and its modalities in American culture while also
dealing specifically with the poetics of the secret in its various,
historically recurrent literary manifestations.
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