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by Daniel T. O'Hara

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Empire Burlesque traces the emergence of the contemporary global context within which American critical identity is formed. Daniel T. O'Hara argues that globalization has had a markedly negative impact on American cultural criticism, circumscribing both its material and imaginative potential, reducing much of it to absurdity. By highlighting the spectacle of its own self-parody, O'Hara aims to shock U.S. cultural criticism back into a sense of ethical responsibility.

Empire Burlesque presents several interrelated analyses through readings of a range of writers and cultural figures including Henry James, Freud, Said, De Man, Derrida, and Cordwainer Smith (an academic, spy, and classic 1950s and 1960s science fiction writer). It describes the debilitating effects of globalization on the university in general and the field of literary studies in particular, it critiques literary studies' embrace of globalization theory in the name of a blind and vacant modernization, and it meditates on the ways critical reading and writing can facilitate an imaginative alternative to institutionalized practices of modernization. Drawing on Lacanian psychoanalytical theory, it diagnoses contemporary American Studies as typically driven by the mindless abjection and transference of professional identities.

A provocative commentary on contemporary cultural criticism, Empire Burlesque will inform debates on the American university across the humanities, particularly among those in literary criticism, cultural studies, and American studies.

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""Empire Burlesque" provides a unique perspective on how much the globalism that, properly, should be 'post-American' is actually another (re)production of America. It is impressive work."--Patrick O'Donnell, author of "Latent Destinies: Cultural Paranoia and Contemporary U.S. Narrative"

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  • Title Empire Burlesque: The Fate of Critical Culture in Global America
  • Author Daniel T. O'Hara
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Printing
  • Pages 392
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Duke University Press, Durham, NC, U.S.A
  • Publication date 2003-04-09
  • Features Bibliography
  • ISBN 9780822330196 / 0822330199
  • Weight 1.29 lbs (0.59 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.96 x 6.36 x 1 in (22.76 x 16.15 x 2.54 cm)
  • Category Sociology
  • Library of Congress subjects United States - Civilization - 1970-, Literature - History and criticism - Theory,
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2002014076
  • Dewey Decimal Code 801.950

About the author

Daniel T. O'Hara is Professor of English at Temple University. He has written and edited a number of books including Radical Parody: American Culture and Critical Agency after Foucault and Lionel Trilling: The Work of Liberation. He is review editor of the journal Boundary 2.

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