American Exceptionalism in the Age of Globalization
Subtitle: The Spector of Vietnam
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: January 31, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9780791472903
Subjects: American history: from c 1900 -; USA; American - General; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism
Description: "In American Exceptionalism in the Age of Globalization, William V. Spanos explores three writers - Graham Greene, Philip Caputo, and Tim O'Brien - whose work devastatingly critiques the U.S. intervention in Vietnam and exposes the brutality of the Vietnam War. Utilizing poststructuralist theory, particularly that of Heidegger, Althusser, Foucault, and Said, Spanos argues that the Vietnam War disclosed the dark underside of the American exceptionalist ethos and, in so doing, speaks directly to America's war on terror in the aftermath of 9/11"--Jacket.