Exceptional State: Contemporary U.S. Culture and the New Imperialism
Exceptional State: Contemporary U.S. Culture and the New Imperialism
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特殊国家：当代美国文化与新帝国主义
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2007
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J. C. Rowe
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A. Dawson;M. Schueller;J. C. Rowe
《例外国家》分析了文化与美国帝国主义的当代表现之间的联系。撰稿人是老牌和新兴的文化研究学者，他们对文化的定义是广义的，包括一系列媒体、文学和政治话语。他们不认为2001年9月11日是美国好战和威权主义在国内外的开始，但他们确实为理解美国对这一事件的反应和利用提供了背景。综上所述，这些文章既强调了当今美国帝国主义的连续性和间断性，也强调了通过表达千禧年主义、例外主义、技术力量和世界主导地位的愿景而构成的帝国主义。
撰稿人讨论了一系列主题，特别关注性别和种族的动态。他们的论文包括令人惊讶地阅读表面上自由派的电影《三个国王》，探索围绕将军队改造成一支不那么依赖人体的高科技部队的计划的言辞，审视广受欢迎的留守系列小说的意义，以及解读阿布格莱布监狱的照片。他们仔细研究了为美国入侵阿富汗和伊拉克辩护而创作的国家叙事，这些国家的女性对入侵的反应方式，呼吁美国进行人道主义干预的潜在矛盾，以及非洲在美国帝国想象中的角色。这本书以充满希望的音符结束，展望了一个新兴的反帝国主义公共领域。
贡献者。Omar Dahbour，Ashley Dawson，Cynthia Enloe，Melani McAlister，Christian Parenti，Donald E.Pease，John Carlos Rowe，Malini Johar Schueller，Harilaos Stecopoulos
Exceptional State analyzes the nexus of culture and contemporary manifestations of U.S. imperialism. The contributors, established and emerging cultural studies scholars, define culture broadly to include a range of media, literature, and political discourse. They do not posit September 11, 2001 as the beginning of U.S. belligerence and authoritarianism at home and abroad, but they do provide context for understanding U.S. responses to and uses of that event. Taken together, the essays stress both the continuities and discontinuities embodied in a present-day U.S. imperialism constituted through expressions of millennialism, exceptionalism, technological might, and visions of world dominance.
The contributors address a range of topics, paying particular attention to the dynamics of gender and race. Their essays include a surprising reading of the ostensibly liberal movies Wag the Do g and Three Kings , an exploration of the rhetoric surrounding the plan to remake the military into a high-tech force less dependent on human bodies, a look at the significance of the popular Left Behind series of novels, and an interpretation of the Abu Ghraib prison photos. They scrutinize the national narrative created to justify the U.S. invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, the ways that women in those countries have responded to the invasions, the contradictions underlying calls for U.S. humanitarian interventions, and the role of Africa in the U.S. imperial imagination. The volume concludes on a hopeful note, with a look at an emerging anti-imperialist public sphere.
Contributors . Omar Dahbour, Ashley Dawson, Cynthia Enloe, Melani McAlister, Christian Parenti, Donald E. Pease, John Carlos Rowe, Malini Johar Schueller, Harilaos Stecopoulos