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Eduardo Barros is postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of English at Universidade da Coruña, Spain.
José Liste Noya teaches American literature at the Universidade da Coruña in northwestern Spain.
Introduction: America the Secret
Secret Nation / Nation of Secrets
Shelley Fisher Fishkin - “None but the Dead Are Permitted to Tell the Truth”: Mark Twain’s Missives to the Future
Carmen Méndez García - The Ultimate Secrecy: Feminist Readings of Masculine Trauma in Vietnam War Literature
Esther Pérez Villalba - (Don’t) Trust the U.S. Government: Paul Greengrass’ United 93 and the 9/11 Conspiracy Theories
David Río - The Desert as a National Sacrifice Zone: The Nuclear Controversy in Nevada Fiction
Boris Vejdovsky - Hidden Truths and Open Lies: The Performance of U.S. History and Mythography in Tony Kushner’s Angels in America and its Film Adaptation
Robert Vorlicky - Dirty Laundry on the Line: Staging the Nation in Contemporary U.S. Drama and Performance
Secret Selves
Marie C. Bouchet - Lolita, the Secret of/in Lolita: “Poerotics” of Secrecy
Carmen Induráin Eraso - American Secrets on the Road towards the West
Inmaculada Lara Bonilla - Family Secrets: Carving Identity out of Silence in Borderlands/La Frontera.
Steve Schessler - The Black Sheep I Am: Anne Sexton, Madness, and the Performance of Confession
Paul Scott Derrick - Dickinson, Doubt, and the Skeptical Argument: Notes for a Defense of the Unspoken
Jefferey Simons - Enabling Secrecy: Hermeneutics, the Lyric, and Dickinson’s Poem 340
(The) Other(´s) Secrets
Carmen Flys Junquera - Whispers in the Wind, Visions in the Fog: Nature’s Secrets in Linda Hogan’s Novels
Christian Hummelsund Voie - Blood on the Tire Iron: Battle on Secret Ideological Frontiers in Brokeback Mountain
Aitor Ibarrola-Armendariz - Secret Links in Edwidge Danticat’s The Dew Breaker: Reflections on Another Composite Novel by an Ethnic Writer
María Frías - AIDS—The Disease With No Name?: Jamaica Kincaid’s My Brother (1997)
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