Containment culture: American narrative, postmodernism, and the atomic age

Introduction

PART I THE STRAIGHT STORY AND THE DUAL NATURE

1. Appearance, Containment, and Atomic Power

2. History, Science, and Hiroshima

PART II CONTAINMENT CULTURE

3. Rhetoric, Sanity, and the Cold War: The Significance of Holden Caulfield's Testimony

4. God's Law and the Wide Screen: The Ten Commandments as Cold War "Epic"

5. Lady and (or) the Tramp: Sexual Containment and the Domestic Playboy

PART III DOUBLE OR NOTHING

6. The Invasion of Postmodernism: The Catch-22 of the Bay of Pigs and Liberty Valance

7. The Rules for Free Speech: Speech Act Theory and the Free Speech Movement

PART IV TWO NATIONS TOO

8. My Country Too: Time, Place, and African American Identity in the Work of John A. Williams

9. Race, Rights, Gender, and Personal Narrative: The Archaeology of "Self" in Meridian

CODA DEMOCRACY

10. Failed Cultural Narratives: America in the Postwar Era and the Story of Democracy

Conclusion.