I Sing the Body Politic : History As Prophecy in Contemporary American Literature.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (223 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: History Repeats Itself Repeats Itself -- 1 Stupidity's Progress: Philip Roth and Twentieth-Century American History -- 2 The Historature of the American Empire: Joseph Heller's Picture This -- 3 The American Wars: History and Prophecy in Vietnam, the Gulf, and Iraq -- 4 Spike Lee, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X: The Politics of Domination and Difference -- 5 Living in Fictitious Times: Michael Moore's Awful Truth about America -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
The end of George W. Bush's imperial presidency means that the wreckage of the republic's political ideals is now subject to a vigorous reassessment. In essays by five senior scholars, major works of American literature and film are analyzed in the context of a larger set of arguments about American injustice at home and across the empire.