The Metanarrative of Suspicion in Late Twentieth-Century America

by Baringer; Sandra

• ISBN13: 9780415970761
• ISBN10: 0415970768
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-08-25
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Through close reading of texts ranging from novels (Pynchon'sVineland,Silko'sAlmanac of the Dead, Pierce'sThe Turner Diaries) to prison literature, this book examines the ways in which narratives of suspicion are both constitutive--and symptomatic--of a metanarrative that pervades American culture.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction	1	(16)
Crucifying the White Man	17	(26)
Douglass Durham and the Master Narrative of the Seventies Savage
Lynching the White Woman	43	(20)
William Pierce's ``Day of the Rope''
Women's Work?	63	(26)
Child Sexual Abuse Prosecution in the 1980s
Motherhood and Treason	89	(14)
Pynchon's Vineland and the New Left
Motherhood and Terror	103	(16)
Silko's Almanac of the Dead
Beyond the Foucauldian Complex	119	(14)
Inscriptions and Reinscriptions of the Power Paradigm by American Prison Writers
Epilogue	133	(6)
Notes	139	(18)
Works Cited	157	(12)
Index	169