Containment Culture American Narratives, Postmodernism, and the Atomic Age

Name: Containment Culture American Narratives, Postmodernism, and the Atomic Age
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ISBN: 9780822316992

ISBN-10: 0822316994

ISBN-13: 9780822316992

Edition: 1995

Authors: Alan Nadel

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Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 11/20/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English



Preface


Introduction



The Straight Story and the Dual Nature



Appearance, Containment, and Atomic Power



History, Science, and Hiroshima



Containment Culture



Rhetoric, Sanity, and the Cold War: The Significance of Holden Caulfield's Testimony



God's Law and the Wide Screen: The Ten Commandments as Cold War "Epic"



Lady and (or) the Tramp: Sexual Containment and the Domestic Playboy



Double or Nothing



The Invasion of Postmodernism: The Catch-22 of the Bay of Pigs and Liberty Valance



The Rules for Free Speech: Speech Act Theory and the Free Speech Movement



Two Nations Too



My Country Too: Time, Place, and African American Identity in the Work of John A. Williams



Race, Rights, Gender, and Personal Narrative: The Archaeology of "Self" in Meridian


Coda: Democracy



Failed Cultural Narratives: America in the Postwar Era and the Story of Democracy


Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


Index