Rhetorical republic
Subtitle: governing representations in American politics
By: edited by Frederick M. Dolan and Thomas L. Dumm.
Contributors: Dolan, Frederick Michael.; Dumm, Thomas L.
Publisher: University of Massachusetts
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Amherst
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
Subjects: Communication -- Political aspects -- United States; Mass media -- Political aspects -- United States; English language -- United States -- Rhetoric; United States -- Politics and government
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-290) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : inventing America / Frederick M. Dolan and Thomas L. Dumm; title: Support our tropes : reading Desert Storm / Avital Ronell; title: Cold wars : securing identity, identifying danger / David Campbell; title: The fair fame of the dead" : the precession of war simulacra and the reconstitution of post-Cold War conservatism / Larry N. George; title: Jekyll and Hyde : the political and cultural economy of narcoterror / James Der Derian and Kiaran Honderich; title: Oliver North and the lying nose / Diane Rubenstein; title: Engendering another American identity / Anne Norton; title: Suppose Kuwait's main product was broccoli? : the street demonstration in U.S. politics / William Chaloupka; title: A show of defiance : poetry as "protest" in contemporary America / John C. Dolan; title: "Bigger" and "Booker" and the GOP : race and e/racing in the struggle for hegemony / Stuart Alan Clarke.; title: Declarations of independence : Arendt and Derrida on the probje of founding a republic / Bonnie Honig; title: Postmodernism and the public sphere / Dana R. Villa; title: Democracy and territoriality / William E. Connolly.