Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-306) and index.
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History and its specter : rethinking thinking in the post-Cold War age -- Althusser's "problematic" : vision and the Vietnam War -- Who killed Alden Pyle? : the oversight of oversight in Graham Greene's The quiet American -- Retrieving the thisness of the Vietnam War : a symptomatic reading of Philip Caputo's A rumor of war -- "The land is your enemy" : Tim O'Brien's Going after Cacciato -- American exceptionalism, the Jeremiad, and the frontier, before and after 9/11 : from the Puritans to the neo-con men -- Conclusion : the Vietnam War, 9/11, and its aftermath.
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American literature-- History and criticism.
English literature-- History and criticism.
Literature and history-- United States.
National characteristics, American, in literature.