ENGL 324 Lecture Notes - Scapegoating, Molecular Modification, Tangled
3 Dec 2012
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
7 mike hammer novels in the 50"s. The social setting we began to develop in red harvest is now grown and matured in this novel. Intrusion in to the daily lives of americans by the federal government. Joining together in a symbiotic relationship of the dod and corporate america. Incestuous and self-sustaining relationship between the public world of the dod and the private, self- funding world of the corporations. The focus of this book seems to be on the mafia, which is odd. Contest between hammer, his friend and the fbi. Hammer doesn"t really have much positive to say about the fbi. Tension between those three different sites of authority and power. The fbi in particular are emblematic, a representative of the federal government more generally. And the language used to describe the fbi is the same as the language that describes the mafia. Displacement of a set of anxieties (scapegoating)
