عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Country Code
IR
Number
53T
LANGUAGE OF THE ITEM
.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc
انگلیسی
COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION OR PRODUCTlON
Country of publication
IR
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Fictions of security: (Re)reading the political thriller in the era of globalization
General Material Designation
[Thesis]
Subsequent Statement of Responsibility
;supervisor Mowitt, John
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
University of Minnesota: United States -- Minnesota
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
: 2007
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
178 pages
DISSERTATION (THESIS) NOTE
Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree
Ph.D.
Body granting the degree
, University of Minnesota: United States -- Minnesota
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
This dissertation, "Fictions of Security: (Re)reading the Political Thriller in the Era of Globalization," examines the theme of security in thrillers of cold war era literature, including Graham Greene's The Quiet American, Richard Condon's The Manchurian Candidate, and Joan Didion's A Book of Common Prayer. It traces how U.S. domestic and foreign policies of security are configured and contested in fictional depictions of Vietnam (Greene), Korea (Condon) and Central America (Didion). Locating the foundational relation between literature, nationalism and security in mid-century American literary studies, my dissertation shows how security narratives of cold war American imperialism epitomize the fraught allegorical relation between politics and literature (a problematic relation that continues to the current, global moment). The genre conventions of the thriller further illuminate recurrent structural and poststructural debates about the status of allegory, the (literal and figurative) insecurity of narrative convention, and the canonical status of popular fiction. This project thus tracks two operative conceptions of "security" (at once political and figural) in literary studies. A comparative and transnational analysis describes how reading for security prevails and fails in American literature, and a theoretical critique traces how predominant concerns with hermeneutics (narrative, interpretation, and the reading subject) are strategic maneuvers--that is, fictions and failures--of security itself.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Literature
American literature
UNCONTROLLED SUBJECT TERMS
Subject Term
Security
Subject Term
Political thriller
Subject Term
Globalization
Subject Term
Literary theory
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Steigman, Karen Frances
ORIGINATING SOURCE
Country
ایران
Agency
National Center for Globalization Studies
old catalog
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