No accident, comrade : chance and design in Cold War American narratives
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No accident, comrade : chance and design in Cold War American narratives
Oxford University Press, 2013, c2012
- : pbk
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注記
First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback, 2013
Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-198) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
No Accident, Comrade argues that chance became a complex yet conflicted cultural signifier during the Cold War, when a range of thinkers-politicians, novelists, historians, biologists, sociologists, and others-contended that totalitarianism denied the very existence and operation of chance in the world. They claimed that the USSR perpetrated a vast fiction on its population, a fiction amplified by the Soviet view that there is no such thing as chance or
accident, only manifestations of historical law (hence the popular American refrain used to refer to Marxism: "It was no accident, Comrade").
By reading an expansive range of American novels published between 1947-2005, alongside nonfiction texts by the likes of Jerzy Kosinski, Daniel Bell, Ian Hacking, and mid-century game theorists, No Accident, Comrade explains how associations of chance with democratic freedom and the denial of chance with totalitarianism circulated in Cold War America. Chance became tied to the liberties of U.S. democracy, whereas its eradication or denial became symptomatic of Soviet tyranny. With
works by Nabokov, Ellison, Pynchon, Didion, DeLillo, Colson Whitehead, and many others, Steven Belletto shows how writers developed innovative strategies for dealing with and incorporating these ever-present beliefs about chance and its role in their culture. These newly developed narrative techniques allowed
them to theorize, satirize, and make sense of the constantly changing relationship between the individual and the state during a largely rhetorical conflict.
目次
- Chapter One: Chance, Narrative, and the Logic of the Cold War
- Chapter Two: Aesthetic Responses to Political Fictions: Pynchon and the
- Violence of Narrative Chance
- Chapter Three: The Zemblan Who Came in from the Cold: Nabokov's Cold War
- Chapter Four: Accidents Going Somewhere to Happen: African-American
- Self-Definition at Mid-Century
- Chapter Five: The Game Theory Narrative and the Myth of the
- National Security State
- Chapter Six: Their Country, Our Culture: The Persistence of the Cold War
- Coda: Cold War Meaning
- Bibliography
- Index
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