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American Imago
Author_Ahmed Elbeshlawy
Autumn's Tale
Beautiful Imperialist
Benjamin's Suicide
Benjamin’s Suicide
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Castrating Power
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Che Vuoi
classic
Classic American Literature
critical theory analysis
cultural identity studies
Der Verschollene
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Hassan's Case
Hassan's View
Hassan's Work
Hassan’s Case
Hassan’s View
Hassan’s Work
Hector St John De
Henri Lonitz
imago
Jacques Alain Miller
Kafka's Amerika
Kafka’s Amerika
La Vita
Lacanian theory
message
minima
modernism and postmodernism
moralia
Online NewsHour
power
psychoanalysis in American cultural critique
psychoanalytic criticism
Scarlet Letter
symbolic
Symbolic America
Tomorrow's Eve
Tomorrow’s Eve
Ultima Thule
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Unreliable Message
Vor Dem Gesetz
White Whale
World War III
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- ISBN 9781138277182
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Nov 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Utilizing Lacan's psychoanalytic theory and Zizek's philosophical adaption of it, this book brings into dialogue a series of modernist and postmodernist literary works, films, and critical theory that are concerned with defining America. Ahmed Elbeshlawy demonstrates that how America is perceived in certain texts reveals not only the idealization or condemnation of it, but an imago, or constructed image of the perceiver as well. In turn, texts which particularly focus on demonstrating how other texts about America communicate an untrustworthy message themselves communicate an unreliable message, inventing and reinventing a series of imagos of America. These imagos refer to both idealized and deformed images of America constructed by the perceivers of America. The first part of this book is concerned with modernist perceptions of America, and includes discussion of Adorno, Benjamin, Kafka, D. H. Lawrence, as well as Emerson and Seymour Martin Lipset. The second part is dedicated to postmodernist representations of America, focusing on texts by Edward Said, Ihab Hassan, Susan Sontag, David Shambaugh and Charles W. Brooks, and films including Lars von Trier's Dogville and D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation.
Ahmed Elbeshlawy is an independent scholar and occasional lecturer. He is author of Woman in Lars von Trier's Cinema (2016) and has contributed articles to The Comparatist (2008), the Palgrave Handbook to Literature and the City (2016), female/bodies (2005, 2006), Scope (2008) and Sexuality and Culture (2014).
