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1 online resource (202 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature and Theory
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Bucknell studies in Latin American literature and theory.
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COUNTERFEIT POLITICS; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Usurpations, or the End of Politics; 1 Reading for the Complot; A Secret History of the Word "Plot"; The Complot Effect (Piglia); The Unsaid (Hemingway); Waiting for Something or Other (Reed); 2 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); 3 Why Hidden Figures Matter for Politics; Pynchon's Parasite (The Crying of Lot 49). |
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Menchú's Political Traps (I, Rigoberta Menchú)4 The Discovery of Politics; The Tlönian Invasion, or Politics at Risk (Borges); The Ruins of Politics (Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow); Epilogue: Counterfeit Politics; Bibliography; Index; About the Author. |
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In Counterfeit Politics, David Kelman reassesses the political significance of conspiracy theory. Traditionally, political theory has sought to banish the "paranoid style" from the "proper" domain of politics. But if conspiracy theory lies outside the sphere of legitimate politics, why do these narratives continue to haunt political life? Counterfeit Politics accounts for the seemingly ineradicable nature of conspiracy theory by arguing that all political statements u. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Latin American literature -- History and criticism.
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Latin American literature. |
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Politics and literature -- Latin America.
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Politics and literature. |
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Latin America. |
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Conspiracy in literature.
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Conspiracy in literature. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Print version: Kelman, David. Counterfeit Politics : Secret Plots and Conspiracy Narratives in the Americas. Lanham : Bucknell University Press, ©2012 9781611484144 |
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9781611484151 (electronic book) |
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1611484154 (electronic book) |
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1306538750 (e-book) |
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9781306538756 (e-book) |
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9781611484144 |
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1611484146 |
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