... the entire history of vio- lence America has perpetrated in the benign name of its exceptionalist identity. I will, instead, invoke the witness of a synecdochical text, Philip Caputo’s memoir, A Rumor of War (1978), of a...

... recent postsecular turn in queer postcolonial scholarship and activism. Gender and sexuality are central to neoliberal formations as sites at which the power relation between religion and secularism is negotiated. Linda Alcoff and John Caputo argue that the Cold War’s “communism ver- sus...

...- tion the insidious ideological uses to which the dominant culture in the United States has insistently put its “sacrificial” victory . . . in its aftermath: during the Cold War, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, 11. Cf. Spanos’s discussion of Philip Caputo’s A Rumor of War in chapter...