The metanarrative of suspicion in late twentieth century America /
[Book]
Sandra Baringer.
New York :
Routledge,
2004.
1 online resource (vii, 176 pages) :
illustrations
Literary criticism and cultural theory
Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-167) and index.
Crucifying the white man : Douglass Durham and the master narrative of the seventies savage -- Lynching the white woman : William Pierce's "day of the rope" -- Women's work? : child sexual abuse prosecution in the 1980s -- Motherhood and treason : Pynchon's Vineland and the new left -- Motherhood and terror : Silko's Almanac of the dead -- Beyond the Foucauldian complex : inscriptions and reinscriptions of the power paradigm by American prison writers.
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Narratives of suspicion and mistrust have escaped the boundaries of specific sites of discourse to constitue a metanarrative that pervades American culture. Sandra Baringer investigates this phenomenon.
Metanarrative of suspicion in late twentieth century America.
0415970768
American literature-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
Literature and society-- United States-- History-- 20th century.