| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 215 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover ; Half Title ; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Table of Contents ; List of figures ; Acknowledgements ; Preface ; 1. Securing the American Ethnoscape: Official surveys and literary interventions ; Introduction: The "fact-minded" Thomas Jefferson; Jefferson the Surveyor; An Encounter of Thomases: Pynchon's Mason & Dixon ; The Method of Radical Doubt; Kincaid contra Jefferson; Writing as Counter-memory; Conclusion: Redeeming political theory and restoring the subjunctive; Notes; 2. The Micropolitics of Crime: Aesthetic comprehension and the "brutality of fact." |
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Vocations of Political TheoryAesthetic Comprehension; Comprehending Crime Stories: Hard-boiled detection; Mosley's Devil in a Blue Dress and the African American Crime Story ; Identity Disturbances; The Politics of Space; The Politics of Friendship; Another Ethnicity, Other Crimes: Native America; Other Histories, Debts, and Voices; Notes; 3. Deforming America's Western Imaginary ; Introduction: Westerns; The Pledge; John Ford's Cinematic West; Resisting the Cliché: McCabe and Mrs. Miller ; History as Counter-memory: Buffalo Bill and the Indians ... ; "What Kind of a Man?": None of the above |
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Conclusion: Contested sites in "the Mount Rushmore state"Notes; 4. HBO's Two Frontiers: Deadwood and The Wire ; Introduction: The two frontiers; The Television Aesthetic; Conclusion: Biopolitics chez HBO ; Notes; 5. Constructing America: Architectural thought-worlds ; Introduction: An attack on the architecture of hegemony; Architecture and Thought; Jefferson's American Designs; The African American University; Beyond Jefferson's Agricultural America: The city; Vernacular America; An Overcoded Thought-world: Native America; Conclusion: The politics of American architecture; Notes |
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6. Composing America Introduction: Counterpoint and ménage; Dvorak versus Tocqueville; A reactive Yankee America and a Fraught Emergence of Jazz; George Gershwin's Intertextual America; Jewish American and African American Self-definition; Duke Ellington's "Deformation of Mastery"; The Blues Pervades the American Ethnoscape: Red ; Conclusion: "Mixing"; Notes; 7. Democracy's Risky Businesses: Pluralism and the metapolitics of aesthetics ; Introduction: Political thinking; Toward Radical Democracy: Rethinking social space and saving contingency |
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Toward a Democratic Ethos: Restoring the subjunctiveBrickman's Risky Business ; Clockers with Risky Business ; Transnational Political Economy and Another Risky Business; Conclusion: Theorizing "democracy in America" in a time of danger; Notes; Index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 7, 2016) |
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Political science -- United States -- History
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Ethnicity -- United States
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Ethnocentrism -- United States
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Political culture -- United States -- History
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Arts -- Political aspects -- United States
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
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Arts -- Political aspects
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Ethnicity
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Ethnocentrism
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Political culture
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Political science
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Politics and government
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Politics and government -- Philosophy
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| Subject |
United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317294467 |
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1317294467 |
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9781317294450 |
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1317294459 |
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9781315646251 |
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1315646250 |
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9781317294443 |
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1317294440 |
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