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SECRET AGENCY: AMERICAN INDIVIDUALISM IN OSWALD'S TALE AND LIBRA.

Norman Mailer's Oswald's Tale and Don DeLillo's Libra are expressly political works. Oswald's bid for selfhood is a nuanced critique of individualism in American life. Mailer reads Oswald's crime as an Emersonian act of self-making--both audacious and peculiarly American. Libra's critique of Oswald...

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Published in:Mailer Review Vol. 3; no. 1; pp. 133 - 173
Main Author: BALTER, BARRIE
Format: Article
Published: Norman Mailer Society Fall2009
Subjects:
Mailer, Norman, 1923-2007
Oswald's Tale (Book)
DeLillo, Don, 1936-
Self
Consciousness
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