Inspired by the foreign policy entanglements of recent years,
William V. Spanos offers a dramatic interpretation of Twain's
classic A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, providing a
fresh assessment of American exceptionalism and the place of a
global America in the American imaginary. Spanos insists that Twain
identifies with his protagonist, particularly in his defining use
of the spectacle, and thus with an American exceptionalism that
uncannily anticipates the George W. Bush administration's
normalization of the state of exception and the imperial policy of
"preemptive war," unilateral "regime change," and "shock and awe"
tactics. Equally stimulating is Spanos's thoroughly original
ontology of American exceptionalism and imperialism and his tracing
of these forces, through a chronological examination of Twain
studies and criticism over the past century.
As an examination of an overlooked text, and a critical history of
American studies from its origins in the nation-oriented Myth and
Symbol school of the Cold War era to its present globalizing or
transnationalizing perspective, Shock and Awe will appeal to a
broad audience of American literature scholars and beyond.
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