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Latent Destinies
Cultural Paranoia and Contemporary U.S. Narrative
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Patrick O'Donnell
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Edited by:
Donald E. Pease
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English
Published/Copyright:
2000
About this book
Uses a discussion of contemporary films and literary works to present an understanding of paranoia as a defining element in postmodern late-capitalist structure.
Author / Editor information
Patrick O’Donnell is Professor and Chair of the Department of English at Michigan State University. He is author of Echo Chambers: Figuring the Voice in Modern Narrative and Passionate Doubts: Designs of Interpretation in Contemporary American Fiction.
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“Latent Destinies provides a smartly informed paradigm for understanding postmodern U.S. narratives, both aesthetic and theoretical. Examining a representative sample of these, O’Donnell finds that they indulge a cultural paranoia that wags the tail of their late-capitalist bête noire.”—Louis A. Renza, Dartmouth College
“Latent Destinies provides a careful, lucid, insightful analysis of a number of works of contemporary American authors and filmmakers, and situates their work within a complex theoretical matrix of social connections that enhance our understanding not only of the works under discussion but also of the conditions of contemporary American culture in which those works circulate.”—Alan Nadel, author of Containment Culture: American Narratives, Postmodernism and the Atomic Age
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Preface
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Entry: The Time of Paranoia
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1 Postmodernity and the Symptom of Paranoia
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2 Head Shots: The Theater of Paranoia
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3 Engendering Paranoia
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4 Criminality and Paranoia
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Exit: Under History: Underworld
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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October 27, 2000
eBook ISBN:
9780822380641
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