Counterfeit politics : secret plots and conspiracy narratives in the Americas /
Kelman, David,1973-
Lewisburg Pa. : Bucknell University Press ; Lanham, Md. : Co-published with The Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, Inc.,
c2012.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Usurpations, or The end of politics -- Reading for the complot: A secret history of the word "plot" -- The complot effect (Piglia): The unsaid (Hemingway), Waiting for something or other (Reed) -- Politics in the age of the imaginative leap: The imaginative leap (Hofstadter and the HSCA report): Catachrestic tales, or What is a political event? (DeLillo), Kennedy assassinations, or What (un)makes a political event? (Volpi) -- Why hidden figures matter for politics: Pynchon's parasite (The crying of Lot 49), Menchú's political traps (I, Rigoberta Menchú) -- The discovery of politics: The Tlönian invasion, or Politics at risk (Borges), The ruins of politics (Pynchon's Gravity's rainbow) -- Epilogue: Counterfeit politics (Piglia's The absent city).
Latin American literature
Politics and literature
Conspiracy in literature.
Also issued online.