The end of the American century? / edited by Peter Bastian and Jan Pilditch
- Bib ID:
- 3084353
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- Sydney : Fulbright New Zealand with Australian and New Zealand American Studies Association, 2004
- xiii, 244 p. ; 21 cm.
- ISBN:
- 095999274X
- Summary:
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Papers given at conference held to discuss the question about the end of the American century which participants have attempted to answer in a variety of ways and from perspectives of a number of different disciplines and nationalities.
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- Machine derived contents note: Acknowledgements v
- Introduction xi
- State of the Nation
- Marshall Walker: 'The End of the American Century?'
- Beyond the Dark Side 3
- Stephen Hardman: 'Just a Normal Neighbourhood: Random
- Acts of Violence and American Culture' 15
- Maureen Montgomery: America the Beautiful: Patriotism
- and the Politics of Dissent in Bush's America 27
- David Fine: American Literature and Culture at the End of
- the American Century 45
- Culture and Commodity
- Neil Bather: 'We Chase the Bad Guys, and They Don't Wear
- Black Hats': Identifying the Bad Guys in, and the
- Fragmentation of, Hollywood Commercial Cinema 59
- Ian Patrick Austin: The United States Present Financial
- Influence In/Over Asia 77
- James McCall: Editing the American Century: Pebbles on
- the Shore? 89
- Defining Identity
- Violetta Petrova: My Big Fat Greek Wedding: the 'Melting
- Pot', the 'Open Totalities', and the Translation in the
- Intra-National Space 97
- Esther Quin: The Times They Are A-Changin': Bob Dylan,
- Bertolt Brecht and the Protest Song 113
- Ken Arvidson: Robert Creeley Meets the Sentimental
- Bloke: A Momentary Encounter between New American
- and Old-fashioned Antipodean Poetics 125
- Loxley Fitzpatrick Nichols: Far from Home: Dawn Powell's
- America 133
- Poetics and Change
- Rachael L. Nichols: Remembering Phillis Wheatley: the
- Historical Poetics of Robert Hayden 149
- Jan Pilditch: 'Unsettling the Wilderness': Susan Howe's
- Conversations with History 161
- Alan Riach: Forward to Square One: Millennial Poetics and
- the Late Poetry of Edward Dorn 173
- Historical Perspectives
- Peter J. Coleman: An Ending, A Beginning: or Just Old
- Wine in New Bottles? 191
- Edward D. Berkowitz: The 1970's and the End of the
- American Century 201
- Peter Bastian: Jeffersonian Visions and Historical
- Dilemmas: the End of the American Century or the
- Historical Cycle Revisited? 229
- Notes on Contributors 241.
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- Includes bibliographical references.
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