... and Presidential Government . By Sean McCann. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 2008. xiv, 248 pp. $35.00. Identity and the Failure of America: From Thomas Jefferson to the War on Terror . By John Michael. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2008. viii, 301 pp. Cloth, $67.50; paper, $22.50...

...Joseph Darda Within the United States, the Korean War has never attracted the memory culture that other twentieth-century wars do. Korea is remembered only for not being remembered, as the “forgotten war.” And yet, as commentators continue to characterize the war on terror as an unparalleled era...

... of Tarzan’s flying terrorism is also strik- ingly similar to the fantasy of colonial enforcement that imperial think- ers were imagining for the airplane, even before Cavotti put it into practice. R. P. Hearne’s 1910 Airships in Peace and War, for example, suggested that “in savage...

... the ways in which globalization paradoxi- cally makes the foreign more uncanny by making it familiar, an insta- bility reflective of the larger politics of the war on terror as a whole. As the amorphous nature of the war on terror challenges traditional defi- nitions of “home” and “enemy...

...–105. “Strangely Interested: The Work of Historical Fantasy,” by Michael A. Elliott, 137–57. Mesmerism. “Who’s Afraid of Virginia’s Nat Turner? Mesmerism, Stowe, and the Terror of Things,” by Christina Zwarg, 23–50. Michener, James. “The Korean War, the Cold War, and the American Novel...

... of Ottawa America’s Culture of Terrorism: Violence, Capitalism, and the Written Word.ByJef- fory A. Clymer. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2003. xii, 277 pp. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $19.95. Crimes of Art and Terror. By Frank Lentricchia and Jody McAuliffe. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press...

... the power of the rebellious mother tongue to dispel the ghost of the invader. Domestic and Foreign Violence Mother Tongue intertwines domestic violence, state-sponsored terror, and silenced tongues as effects of U.S. militarism and, in particular, as a result of the U.Snanced war of the Salvadoran...

... scholarship are the ongoing involvements in what the US Department of Defense calls “designated combat zones.” Then there is the hovering presence of the so-called war on terror, which has been part of the psychic landscape at least since September 2001, if not since the 1983 bombing of a barracks in Beirut...

... conservative Chris- tianity already ascendant in U.S. culture (the “Global War on Terror” in Afghanistan and Iraq). The militia and the terror cell composed of reli- gious suicide bombers—those minimal moral communities devoted to spectacular and self-annihilating violence—become key objects...

...-intentioned observers threw up their hands and dismissed the whole phenomenon as ‘‘globaloney Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s 2004 essay, ‘‘Globalicities: Terror and Its Consequences appeared at an important moment in the trajectory of globalization theory, when the so-called war on terror had emerged...

...-American literary texts rather than in legal discourse at times of radical change involving violent conflict, such as the onset of US settler colonialism, the post–World War II atomic age, and the US war on terror. The concept served as a kind of legal fiction until a body of law evolved to address...

... of violence (13). Bachner demonstrates how these works offered a “deeply therapeutic” but ultimately “illusory” engage- ment with the “real” of violence from the atomic age to the war on terror (5). Vladimir Nabokov’s Pale Fire is offered as a fantastical yet very real historical palimpsest...

... . “ The American Question in England .” In On America and the Civil War, vol. 2 of The Karl Marx Library , edited and translated by Padover Saul K. , 53 – 61 . New York : McGraw-Hill . Massumi Brian . 2010 . “ The Future Birth of the Affective Fact: The Political Ontology of Threat...

... of September 11: Hate Crimes and State Crimes in the War on Terror . Piscataway, NJ : Rutgers Univ. Press . Young Iris Marion . 2000 . Inclusion and Democracy . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . Nicholas Poetry, Recognition, and Redistribution: Hengen Fox The September 11...

... prosecutes his race war in the United States by inflaming hatred and terrorism among white Americans until it “roll[s] along under its own momentum” to their self-destruction (BE, 83). In Europe, white people die “like flies” in the “bestial fear and terror” of the Second World War, killing...

.... Review: Stanlake, Native American Drama: A Critical Perspective, 463–66. Review: Vizenor, Native Liberty: Natural Reason and Cultural Surviv- ance, 463–66. Bady, Aaron. “Tarzan’s White Flights: Terrorism and Fantasy before and after the Airplane,” 305–29. Barrett, Faith. Review...

... beliefs. Of course, the slave code itself constitutes 466  American Literature an imposed “Governing of Negroes,” and in the code’s fantasy the reli- gion of the slave is seemingly one of “desperate Lives” and the drive to terrorize whites (§ 20). 9 History of the Pequot War...

...’ trauma would soon be revisited on the globe in the form of an endless war on terror? Lee-Potter suggests early on that the horrors of 9/11 “made it newly necessary to produce art that is both reassuring and salving and therefore, by extension, misleading” (86). Although it “has always been the novel’s...

... or the exhortations to embrace staying at home to watch Netflix just like our grandparents answered the call to war in the early twentieth century. Obviously, these are jokes meant to chivvy us into compliance with public health measures by recognizing the sacrifices social distancing demands while keeping...

.... A combination of post-Iraq recalibrations of the international order and a recrudescent nationalism has once more made visible tensions within human rights that had, in all likelihood, been simmering away. The global war on terror produced what Giorgio Agamben ( 2005 ) famously termed “states of exception...