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Counterfeit politics: The conspiracy...

Kelman, David.

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Counterfeit politics: The conspiracy narrative in twentieth-century United States and Argentine literature.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Counterfeit politics: The conspiracy narrative in twentieth-century United States and Argentine literature./
Author:	Kelman, David.
Description:	235 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Elissa Marder.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-05A.
Subject:	Literature, American. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3264080
ISBN:	9780549026631

Counterfeit politics: The conspiracy narrative in twentieth-century United States and Argentine literature.
Kelman, David.

Counterfeit politics: The conspiracy narrative in twentieth-century United States and Argentine literature. - 235 p.

Adviser: Elissa Marder.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Emory University, 2007.

My dissertation addresses the political significance of conspiracy fiction. By comparing U.S. and Argentine literature, I propose that the conspiracy narrative (or "conspiracy theory") represents a more generalized attempt to tell a political story in the twentieth century. A comparative approach reveals that conspiracy narrative in the Americas shares a common political form, and that this form has a paradoxical structure. I show that the conspiracy narrative is constituted as a single form that is split into two stories. While the first story is visible, the second story is told in secret and undermines the legitimacy of the first story. Although this second story is antagonistic to the first story and therefore undermines its power, nevertheless this antagonistic relation is what defines the form of the conspiracy narrative. Following Ernesto Laclau's theory of the discursive structure of politics, I argue that this disturbing conflict is a structural necessity of politics.

ISBN: 9780549026631Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017657
Literature, American.

Counterfeit politics: The conspiracy narrative in twentieth-century United States and Argentine literature.
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520 $a In a number of close readings of texts by Jorge Luis Borges, Macedonio Fernandez, Ricardo Piglia, Thomas Pynchon, Philip K. Dick, and Don DeLillo, I focus on the emergence of a secret story or a hidden figure that seems to lack legitimacy, as if this secret story or hidden figure did not really exist. I argue that this "counterfeit" element is not simply an accidental feature of these texts, but rather points to the very element that gives these texts their political form. Therefore, I argue that the emergence of a secret is a necessary part of any political narrative. For that reason, I conclude that "conspiracy theory" is the form that politics takes in the twentieth century.
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