Containment culture : American narratives, postmodernism, and the atomic age / Alan Nadel.
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Durham, NC :
Duke University Press,
1995.
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| Series: | New Americanists.
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Table of Contents:
- Pt. 1. The straight story and the dual nature
- Appearance, containment, and atomic power
- History, science, and Hiroshima
- Pt. 2. Containment culture
- Rhetoric, sanity, and the Cold War : the significance of Holden Caulfield's testimony
- God's law and the wide screen : The ten commandments as cold war "epic"
- Lady and (or) the tramp : sexual containment and the domestic playboy
- Pt. 3. Double or nothing
- The invasion of postmodernism : the catch-22 of the Bay of Pigs and liberty valance
- The rules for free speech : speech act theory and the free speech movement
- Pt. 4. Two nations too
- My country too : time, place, and African American identity in the work of John A. Williams
- Race, rights, gender, and personal narrative : the archaeology of "self" in Meridian
- Failed cultural narratives : America in the postwar era and the story of democracy.