American Secrets
Download or Read eBook American Secrets PDF written by José Liste-Noya and published by Fairleigh Dickinson. This book was released on 2011-09-16 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Author | : José Liste-Noya |
Publisher | : Fairleigh Dickinson |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2011-09-16 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781611470079 |
ISBN-13 | : 1611470072 |
Rating | : 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis American Secrets by : José Liste-Noya
Book excerpt: Predicated upon the principles of political freedom, cultural openness, religious tolerance, individual self-reliance and ethnic diversity, the United States of America has been tempted recurrently by the lures of the secret. This political, historical and cultural phenomenon is explored here from many, often surprisingly overlapping angles in these analyses of the literary and cultural uses and abuses of secrecy within a democratic culture. These essays reveal the politics within the poetics and, indissociably, the poetics fueling the politics of secrecy in its ambivalent deployment.