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Author Showalter, Noah David, 1869-

Title Conspiracy nation : the politics of paranoia in postwar America / edited by Peter Knight
Published New York : New York University Press, c2002

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Description viii, 278 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Contents Introduction: A nation of conspiracy theorists / Peter Knight -- Spinning paranoia: the ideologies of conspiracy and contingency in postmodern culture / Skip Willman -- A poor person's cognitive mapping / Fran Mason -- Agency panic and the culture of conspiracy / Timothy Melley -- If anything is possible / Jodi Dean -- "My body is not my own": alien abduction and the struggle for self-control / Bridget Brown -- Injections and truth serums: AIDS conspiracy theories and the politics of articulation / Jack Bratich -- White hope: conspiracy, nationalism, and revolution in the Turner diaries and Hunter / Ingrid Walker Fields -- "All eyez on me": the paranoid style of Tupac Shakur / Eithne Quinn -- The X-files and conspiracy: a diagnostic critique / Douglas Kellner -- The commodification of conspiracy theory / Clare Birchall -- Forget conspiracy: Pynchon, DeLillo, and the conventional counterconspiracy narrative / John A. McClure
Notes "List of books for further reading": p. [201]
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Also available in digital form on the Internet Archive Web site
English
Subject Rural schools -- United States
Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Political culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Conspiracies -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Paranoia -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Cold War -- Social aspects -- United States
American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Conspiracies in literature
Politics and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century
SUBJECT United States -- Civilization -- 1945-
United States -- Social conditions -- 1945-
Author Knight, Peter, 1968-
LC no. 2001000062
ISBN 0814747353 (cloth : alk. paper)
0814747361 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Other Titles Politics of paranoia in postwar America