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Exceptional State
Contemporary U.S. Culture and the New Imperialism
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Edited by:
Ashley Dawson
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With contributions by:
John Carlos Rowe
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English
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2007
About this book
Explores the role culture plays in legitimating, unsettling, and contesting America's aggressively interventionist foreign policy since 9/11.
Author / Editor information
Ashley Dawson is Associate Professor of English at the City University of New York, College of Staten Island. He is author of Mongrel Nation: Diasporic Culture and the Making of Postcolonial Britain.
Malini Johar Schueller is Professor of English at the University of Florida. She is the author of U.S. Orientalisms: Race, Nation, and Gender in Literature, 1790–1890 and The Politics of Voice: Liberalism and Social Criticism From Franklin to Kingston and a coeditor of Messy Beginnings: Postcoloniality and Early American Studies.
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“Exceptional State is a timely and important collection of essays which together address crucial questions about change and continuity between the current imperial moment and the history of U.S. imperialism.”—Amy Kaplan, coeditor of Cultures of United States Imperialism
“In this superb collection, leading theorists of cultural imperialism adroitly expose why neoliberalism is dangerously beguiling to a nation torn between fear of terrorism and desire to maintain superpower hegemony. Moving from powerful critiques to essays that empower resistance, this volume shows how historical accounts of U.S. imperialism can serve as enabling acts for a democratic future in the making.”—Lee Quinby, author of Millennial Seduction: A Skeptic Confronts Apocalyptic Culture
“Exceptional State captures the cultural affirmation, and attendant psychological and sociological ramifications of US imperialism. These essays analyse the subtle and more overt ways the tentacles of hegemony permeate the lives of people all around the world. . . . Exceptional State really is essential reading for anyone who fancies themselves as an enjoyer of freedom and democracy. Get it while you can!”
-- Megan Yarrow M/C Reviews
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction: Rethinking Imperialism Today
1 - PART 1: TECHNOLOGIES OF IMPERIALISM
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Culture, US Imperialism, and Globalization
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Between the Homeland and Abu Ghraib: Dwelling in Bush’s Biopolitical Settlement
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Planet America: The Revolution in Military Affairs as Fantasy and Fetish
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Hegemony and Rights: On the Liberal Justification for Empire
105 - PART 2: ENGENDERING IMPERIALISM
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Updating the Gendered Empire: Where Are the Women of Occupied Afghanistan and Iraq?
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Techno-Dominance and Torturegate: The Making of US Imperialism
162 - PART 3: IMAGINING OTHERS
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Left Behind and the Politics of Prophecy Talk
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Putting an Old Africa on Our Map: British Imperial Legacies and Contemporary US Culture
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New Modes of Anti-imperialism
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Coda: Information Mastery and the Culture of Annihilation
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Bibliography
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Contributors
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Index
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