Anti-Apocalypse : exercises in genealogical criticism
As the new millennium approaches, the author contends there is a threatening "regime of truth" prevailing in the US; which, with its enforcement of absolute truth and morality, imperils democracy. She offers a powerful critique of the millennarian rhetoric that currently pervades US culture.
Print Book, English, ©1994
University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, ©1994
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xxvii, 208 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780816622788, 9780816622795, 9780816685202, 0816622787, 0816622795, 0816685207
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Introduction: Apocalyptic Fits
pt. I. Genealogy Now. 1. Eu(jean)ics: The New Fashion in Power. 2. Genealogical Feminism: A Politic Way of Looking. 3. Philosophy Today: Not-for-Prophet Thought
pt. II. The Re-Creations and Recreations of Adam and Eve: Reading Modernist Texts in Postmodern Contexts. 4. Conceiving the New Man: Henry Adams and the Birth of Ironic Apocalypse. 5. "Woman Got de Key": Zora Neale Hurston and Resistance Apocalypse
pt. III. A Book of Revelry: The Decline and Fall of the American Empire. 6. Urination and Civilization: Practicing Pissed Criticism. 7. Resistance on the Home Front: Re(con)figuring Home Space as a Practice of Freedom
Coda: On Waco: A Monday Morning Wake-Up Call
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