ABSTRACT
Narratives of suspicion and mistrust have escaped the boundaries of specific sites of discourse to constitue a metanarrative that pervades American culture. Through close reading of texts ranging from novels (Pynchon's Vineland, Silko's Almanac of the Dead, Pierce's The Turner Diaries) to prison literature, this book examines the ways in which narratives of suspicion are both constitutive--and symptomatic--of a metanarrative that pervades American culture.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |15 pages
Introduction
chapter |26 pages
Chapter One Crucifying the White Man
Douglass Durham's Reinvention of the American Indian Movement
chapter |14 pages
Chapter Six Beyond the Foucauldian Complex
Inscriptions and Reinscriptions of the Power Paradigm by American Prison Writers