American exceptionalism in the age of globalization : the specter of Vietnam /
"In American Exceptionalism in the Age of Globalization, William V. Spanos explores three writers - Graham Greene, Philip Caputo, and Tim O'Brien - whose work devastatingly critiques the U.S. intervention in Vietnam and exposes the brutality of the Vietnam War. Utilizing poststructuralist...
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
©2008.
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书本目录:
- 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.