TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nadel,Alan
ED  - ProQuest (Firm)
TI  - Containment culture: American narrative, postmodernism, and the atomic age 
T2  - New Americanists
SN  - 9780822381976
AV  - E169.12 .N324 1995
PY  - 1995///
CY  - Durham, NC
PB  - Duke University Press
KW  - Postmodernism
KW  - United States
KW  - Arts, American
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Civilization
KW  - 1945-
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction -- PART I THE STRAIGHT STORY AND THE DUAL NATURE -- 1. Appearance, Containment, and Atomic Power -- 2. History, Science, and Hiroshima -- PART II CONTAINMENT CULTURE -- 3. Rhetoric, Sanity, and the Cold War: The Significance of Holden Caulfield's Testimony -- 4. God's Law and the Wide Screen: The Ten Commandments as Cold War "Epic" -- 5. Lady and (or) the Tramp: Sexual Containment and the Domestic Playboy -- PART III DOUBLE OR NOTHING -- 6. The Invasion of Postmodernism: The Catch-22 of the Bay of Pigs and Liberty Valance -- 7. The Rules for Free Speech: Speech Act Theory and the Free Speech Movement -- PART IV TWO NATIONS TOO -- 8. My Country Too: Time, Place, and African American Identity in the Work of John A. Williams -- 9. Race, Rights, Gender, and Personal Narrative: The Archaeology of "Self" in Meridian -- CODA DEMOCRACY -- 10. Failed Cultural Narratives: America in the Postwar Era and the Story of Democracy -- Conclusion
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ER  -