Gore Vidal, the American Empire, and the Cultural Vocabulary of the Post-Civil War South

Donald M. WHALEY

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Gore Vidal, the American Empire, and the Cultural Vocabulary of the Post-Civil War South

Yazarlar:

Donald M. WHALEY

Yayıncı:

American Studies Association of Turkey (ASAT)

Dergi:

Journal of American Studies of Turkey 2012 Issue 35, pp.29-38

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

5/2012

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000734503

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İki Yıllık

pISSN:

1300-6606

Özet:

 

For the historian of ideas seeking the origin of Gore Vidal’s critique  of the United States of America, that since World War II the American  government has engaged in unjustified violence against people abroad  while abridging civil liberties at home, William Pfaff provides a clue. In an  essay published in The New York Review of Books in 2012, Pfaff examines “the  decisive events shaping the condition of individual lives and providing the  cultural vocabulary of an era” in several countries. For the United States,  he argues, the decisive event is World War II, “although,” he adds, “at the  time that World War II began for America, in 1941, the era ended would  probably have been identified as post-Civil War, at least in the South”  51 .  If the historian were to accept Pfaff’s argument, it becomes possible to see  Vidal’s critique of post-World War II America as rooted in the “cultural  vocabulary” of the post-Civil War pre-World War II South.

Makale detayları

Gore Vidal, the American Empire, and the Cultural Vocabulary of the Post-Civil War South

Yazarlar: Donald M. WHALEY

Yayıncı: American Studies Association of Turkey (ASAT)

Dergi: Journal of American Studies of Turkey 2012 Issue 35, pp.29-38

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 5/2012

Belge Dili: İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.): 2000734503

Sıklık: İki Yıllık

pISSN: 1300-6606

Sayı

Yazarlar:

Donald M. WHALEY

Yayıncı:

American Studies Association of Turkey (ASAT)

Dergi:

Journal of American Studies of Turkey 2012 Issue 35, pp.29-38

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

5/2012

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000734503

Sıklık:

İki Yıllık

pISSN:

1300-6606