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ISBN: 1800102186 1800102194 1640141138 Year: 2021 Publisher: Rochester, NY : Camden House,
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Vote with a Bullet is the first systematic study of assassination in American fiction. It proffers not only a fundamental overview of the genre but also an argument about its larger cultural, aesthetic, and political significance in the present moment as well as in the respective historical contexts of the works themselves.The study argues that American assassination fiction is a symbolic condensation of the larger conflict between individual and society that is at the heart of modern democracy, and that has been especially contested in the democratic culture of the US. Starting with Henry James's The Princess Casamassima (1886) and ending with Noah Hawley's The Good Father (2012), the chapters analyze twelve works ranging from canonical classics to popular genre fiction. A conclusion considers Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day (2006). The book describes the loose continuum of assassination fiction as an imaginary laboratory in which fantasies of individual empowerment and social unity play out in different ways, negotiating the tension between individualism and mass society in a democracy that is based on the former but must restrict it to preserve the latter. Furthermore, the study connects the imaginary of assassination with a variety of related themes such as hegemonic masculinity and whiteness, electoral and non-electoral political choice, agency panic, subjectivity, as well as conspiracies and conspiracy theory.
Assassination in literature. --- American fiction --- History and criticism. --- American democracy. --- American literature. --- Assassination fiction. --- cultural significance. --- individualism. --- literary analysis. --- literature and society. --- mass society. --- political themes.
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ISBN: 1800103093 1648250319 Year: 2021 Publisher: Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press,
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Examines the history of one of the best known dramatic dance performance practices on Bali and its connection with cultural tourism.
Dance --- Kecak (Dance drama) --- Heritage tourism --- History. --- Cultural tourism --- Tourism --- Ketjak (Dance drama) --- Monkey chant (Dance drama) --- Ramayana monkey chant (Dance drama) --- Balinese drama --- Pantomimes with music --- Dances --- Dancing --- Amusements --- Performing arts --- Balls (Parties) --- Eurythmics --- Cak (Dance drama) --- Kera (Dance drama) --- Monkey dance (Dance drama) --- Rāma --- Rāghava --- Ramachandra --- Ram --- African Tradition. --- Bali. --- Cultural Significance. --- Cultural Tourism. --- Dramatic Dance Performance. --- Fieldwork. --- Indian Ramayana Epic. --- Kecak. --- Kendra Stepputat. --- Living Scenery. --- Male and Female Solo Dancers. --- Musicians. --- Tourist Performance. --- Tourists' Perspectives. --- Balinese (Indonesian people) --- Music --- History
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