AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM IN THE AGE OF GLOBALIZATION
THE SPECTER OF VIETNAM
William V. Spanos49,98 €
- Editorial: BLACKWELL PUBLISHER
- Año de edición: 2008
- ISBN: 978-0-7914-7290-3
- Páginas: 321
- Colección: < Genérica >
- Idioma: Español
49,98 €
Alerta disponibilidad onlineIn American Exceptionalism in the Age of Globalization, William V. Spanos explores three writersGraham Greene, Philip Caputo, and Tim OBrienwhose work devastatingly critiques the U.S. intervention in Vietnam and exposes the brutality of the Vietnam War. Utilizing poststructuralist theory, particularly that of Heidegger, Althusser, Foucault, and Said, Spanos argues that the Vietnam War disclosed the dark underside of the American exceptionalist ethos and, in so doing, speaks directly to Americas war on terror in the aftermath of 9/11. To support this argument, Spanos undertakes close readings of Greenes The Quiet American, Caputos A Rumor of War, and OBriens Going After Cacciato, all of which bear witness to the self-destruction of American exceptionalism. Spanos retrieves the spectral witness that has been suppressed since the war, but that now, in the wake of the quagmire in Iraq, has returned to haunt Americas post-9/11 project for the new American century.
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