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Latent Destinies - Cultural Paranoia and Contemporary U.S. Narrative (Hardcover)
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Latent Destinies - Cultural Paranoia and Contemporary U.S. Narrative (Hardcover)
Series: New Americanists
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"Latent Destinies" examines the formation of postmodern
sensibilities and their relationship to varieties of paranoia that
have been seen as widespread in this century. Despite the fact that
the Cold War has ended and the threat of nuclear annihilation has
been dramatically lessened by most estimates, the paranoia that has
characterized the period has not gone away. Indeed, it is as if--as
O'Donnell suggests--this paranoia has been internalized, scattered,
and reiterated at a multitude of sites: Oklahoma City, Waco, Ruby
Ridge, Bosnia, the White House, the United Nations, and numerous
other places.
O'Donnell argues that paranoia on the broadly cultural level is
essentially a narrative process in which history and postmodern
identity are negotiated simultaneously. The result is an erasure of
historical temporality--the past and future become the
all-consuming, self-aware present. To explain and exemplify this,
O'Donnell looks at such books and films as "Libra, JFK, The Crying
of Lot 49, The Truman Show, Reservoir Dogs, Empire of the
Senseless, Oswald's Tale, The Executioner's Song, Underworld, The
Killer Inside Me, "and "Groundhog Day." Organized around the topics
of nationalism, gender, criminality, and construction of history,
"Latent Destinies" establishes cultural paranoia as consonant with
our contradictory need for multiplicity and certainty, for openness
and secrecy, and for mobility and historical stability.
Demonstrating how imaginative works of novels and films can be
used to understand the postmodern historical condition, this book
will interest students and scholars of American literature and
cultural studies, postmodern theory, and film studies.
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