America in Literature and Film

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America in Literature and Film is written by Ahmed Elbeshlawy and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1409425266 (ISBN 10) and 9781409425267 (ISBN 13).

Utilizing Lacan's psychoanalytic theory and centsiYek's philosophical adaption of it, this book brings into dialogue a series of literary works, films and critical theory that are concerned with defining America. Elbeshlawy demonstrates that texts which particularly focus on demonstrating how other texts about America communicate an unreliable message themselves communicate an unreliable message. Writers and films discussed include Adorno, Kafka, Sontag, Said, Hassan, Dogville and Birth of a Nation