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In four chapters, bookended by a critical introduction and conclusion, Lurie usefully complicates other critical approaches such as New Historicism and trauma studies. In the conclusion he shifts to considering how direct seeing of the events of 9/11 did not, predictably, lead observers to understand those events. Instead, he posits in the conclusion that recent works by visual artists and citizen-documentarians offer a more encompassing and efficacious mode than previously found. This book will be required reading for scholars working at the intersections of American literature/film, historical trauma, and visual representation. * CHOICE *

In four chapters, bookended by a critical introduction and conclusion, Lurie usefully complicates other critical approaches such as New Historicism and trauma studies. In the conclusion he shifts to considering how direct seeing of the events of 9/11 did not, predictably, lead observers to understand those events. Instead, he posits in the conclusion that recent works by visual artists and citizen-documentarians offer a more encompassing and efficacious mode than previously found. This book will be required reading for scholars working at the intersections of American literature/film, historical trauma, and visual representation. -- CHOICE American Obscurantism not only exemplifies a range of possible futures for American Studies, it also has much to say about the future of America as such. This is ambitious, theoretically rich, sophisticated cultural criticism of a very high order. It deserves a wide and attentive audience. -- Modern Fiction Studies

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Peter Lurie is Associate Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of Richmond. He is the author of Vision's Immanence: Faulkner, Film, and the Popular Imagination (2004) and of articles on Faulkner, Hart Crane, critical race theory, and the cinema of Richard Linklater. He is the editor, with Ann J. Abadie, of Faulkner and Film: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha 2010 (2014). In 2015 he was a Fulbright Distinguished Chair in American Studies at the University of Warsaw. Also in 2015 he was Visiting Professor of English at the University of Paris, Diderot. Prior to his position at Richmond he taught Anglo-American Cinema and modern literature as a Fellow at Keble College, Oxford and at Harvard in the History and Literature program.

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