Containment culture : American narrative, postmodernism, and the atomic age / / Alan Nadel.
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| Superior document: | New Americanists |
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| Year of Publication: | 1995 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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| Physical Description: | xii, 332 p. :; ill. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- PART I THE STRAIGHT STORY AND THE DUAL NATURE
- 1. Appearance, Containment, and Atomic Power
- 2. History, Science, and Hiroshima
- PART II CONTAINMENT CULTURE
- 3. Rhetoric, Sanity, and the Cold War: The Significance of Holden Caulfield's Testimony
- 4. God's Law and the Wide Screen: The Ten Commandments as Cold War "Epic"
- 5. Lady and (or) the Tramp: Sexual Containment and the Domestic Playboy
- PART III DOUBLE OR NOTHING
- 6. The Invasion of Postmodernism: The Catch-22 of the Bay of Pigs and Liberty Valance
- 7. The Rules for Free Speech: Speech Act Theory and the Free Speech Movement
- PART IV TWO NATIONS TOO
- 8. My Country Too: Time, Place, and African American Identity in the Work of John A. Williams
- 9. Race, Rights, Gender, and Personal Narrative: The Archaeology of "Self" in Meridian
- CODA DEMOCRACY
- 10. Failed Cultural Narratives: America in the Postwar Era and the Story of Democracy
- Conclusion.