{"product_id":"the-covert-sphere-secrecy-fiction-and-the-national-security-state-9780801478536","title":"The Covert Sphere  Secrecy Fiction and the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eExamining how since 1947 a regime of psychological operations and covert action has made the conflation of reality and fiction a central feature of both U.S. foreign policy and American culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"His study impressively documents how state secrecy became a privileged topos for reflecting on power and knowledge in late twentieth century American literature and cutlure.\" —Alexander Dunst,Journal of American Studies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his exploration of the national security state and the fiction it inspires, Melley engages in a spirited and cerebral examination of certain cultural and political tropes of the Cold Warand beyond, illustrating how often they have been rearticulated in a twenty-first-centurycontext as the War on Terror gathered pace in the wake of 9\/11.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Sam Goodman * Literature \u0026amp; History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cb\u003eIntroduction: The Postmodern Public Sphere\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCold War Redux\u003cbr\u003e We Now Know\u003cbr\u003e Public Secrets\u003cbr\u003e Mere Entertainment\u003cbr\u003e Strategic Irrationalism\u003cbr\u003e Representations of the Covert State\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e1. Brainwashed!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Faisalabad Candidate\u003cbr\u003e Brain Warfare\u003cbr\u003e Little Shop of Horrors\u003cbr\u003e Softening Up Our Boys\u003cbr\u003e Renditions\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e2. Spectacles of Secrecy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTrial by Simulation\u003cbr\u003e Political Theater\u003cbr\u003e Recovered (National) Memory\u003cbr\u003e The State's Two Faces\u003cbr\u003e Fakery in Allegiance to the Truth\u003cbr\u003e The Fabulist Spy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e3. False Documents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTrue Lies\u003cbr\u003e Enemies of the State\u003cbr\u003e Psy Ops\u003cbr\u003e The Epistemology of Vietnam\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e4. The Work of Art in the Age of Plausible Deniability\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNarrative Dysfunction\u003cbr\u003e Calculated Ellipsis\u003cbr\u003e The Feminization of the Public Sphere\u003cbr\u003e The Journalist as Patsy\u003cbr\u003e Metafiction in Wartime\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e5. Postmodern Amnesia\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAssassins of Memory\u003cbr\u003e The Dialectics of Spectacle and Secrecy\u003cbr\u003e Secret History\u003cbr\u003e The Magic Show\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e6. The Geopolitical Melodrama\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGround Zero\u003cbr\u003e Enemies, Foreign and Domestic\u003cbr\u003e Whatever It Takes\u003cbr\u003e Demonology\u003cbr\u003e Melodrama as Policy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003e Works Cited\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405157507415,"sku":"9780801478536","price":26.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780801478536.jpg?v=1730488921","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-covert-sphere-secrecy-fiction-and-the-national-security-state-9780801478536","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}