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

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. National Identities, Postmodern Artifacts, and Postnational Narratives 1
5. Nationalism, Hypercanonization, and Huckleberry Finn 14
6. The Politics of Nonidentity: A Genealogy 34
7. As I Lay Dying in the Machine Age 69
8. Failed Cultural Narratives: America in the Postwar Era and the Story of Democracy 95
9. Resisting History: Rear Window and the Limits of the Postwar Settlement 121
10. Queer Nationality 149
11. Engendering Paranoia in Contemporary Narrative 181
12. Techno-euphoria and the Discourse of the American Sublime 205
13. On Becoming Oneself in Frank Lentricchia 230
14. Melville's Typee: U.S. Imperialism at Home and Abroad 255
15. Mass Circulation versus The Masses: Covering the Modern Magazine Scene 279
16. Contributors 312
17. Index 315