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Title: Cultures of United States Imperialism (New Americanists) by Amy Kaplan, Donald E. Pease ISBN: 0-8223-1413-4 Publisher: Duke Univ Pr (Txt) Pub. Date: January, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Summary: It's Great, If You Like That Sort of Thing.
Comment: This is, as one can guess by the title, an academic book. Obviously it is; it is difficult to say, even after reading it, what exactly it means. Does it refer to "cultures" created by U.S. Imperialism? Or perhaps to "cultures" created within the U.S. by imperialism? The predictable answer would be "both," an answer that seems to be given by the structure of the book itself, which not only includes essays on the impact of U.S. imperialism on other nations but also essays on the impact of imperialism "on-shore," so to speak. One such essay is by a professor named Bill Brown, who writes on, apparently, the relationship between the Panama Canal and artificial limbs in "The Prosthetics of Empire." This, to a non-academic, might sound surprising, but it is if anything rather banal these days. But what is really interesting about Brown's essay is that, while he seems to be well-within the crypto-Marxian, post-everything critical theory mish-mash of what passes for academic thought these days, he has actually, in a somewhat weird way, entirely transcended those boundaries. How, you might ask? Well, the answer seems to be that Brown has taken the bold step of not merely just making assertions, as critical theory types are wont to do, but he has even dispensed with that old-fashioned technique of the bourgeois class, and written an essay that does not just merely gesticulate at argumentation but has left argumentation behind entirely. What I mean is, Brown doesn't just say that there is a connection between artificial limbs and the Panama Canal and be done with it; instead he just proceeds as if there was a connection. This, you might say, is a stunning achievement, and one has to praise not just Brown, but also his editors for their courage in publishing it. Of course, not all of the essays in this volume are this "edgy," but don't be surprised next year when you find used bookstores awash with it. By then, of course, the work of Brown and his compatriots will have been denounced as just another victims of cooptation by the "hegemonic state."
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