Buch, Englisch, 298 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 516 g
The Deep State, Parapolitics, and Bad White Men
Buch, Englisch, 298 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 516 g
Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Crime, Media and Culture
ISBN: 978-3-032-24184-9
Verlag: Springer
This book attempts to link the entirety of James Ellroy’s work to major political trends, both historical and contemporary, in critical theory, as a unique, compelling deep-dive. Ellroy's crime fiction provides valuable insights into current trends of a disturbing, and possibly dangerous, nature. It analyzes the contestable political, social, and moral content of Ellroy’s writings through the interpretative lenses of established political and literary theorists—in this instance,Frantz Fanon, Achille Mbembe, Paul Virilio, Carl Schmitt, and Walter Benjamin. The text assumes the form of an exegesis on the subversive potentialities of Ellroy’s writings for what is understood as both the Left and the Right. But this formal exegesis is read against a second one that subliminally relates the critical interpretations of the first to certain difficult to articulate trends in the contemporary that have become even more pronounced following the U.S. federal election in November, 2024. It also implicitly suggests that traditional liberal democracy is ultimately incapable of resolving seemingly interminable political, social, and cultural crises within what is in essence a continental settler-colonial state. This book hopes to demonstrate the relevance of radical and cultural criminology to wider areas of contemporary political and cultural concern.
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Research
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Einzelne Autoren: Monographien & Biographien
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
- Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
- Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
- Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
Weitere Infos & Material
.- Chapter 1: The Bad White Men as the Mediators of the Deep State.- Chapter 2: El Monte or, The Big Nowhere of the Bad White Men.- Chapter 3: The Wonder or, the of Parapolitics.- Chapter 4: The Decomposition of the Bad White Men in the Chapter 5: “Bad men in Love with Strong Women” or, the Divine Violence of the Cut-Out.
