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 SecretSecret Nation / Nation of SecretsShelley Fisher Fishkin - “None but the Dead Are Permitted to Tell the Truth”: Mark Twain’s Missives to the FutureCarmen Méndez García - The Ultimate Secrecy: Feminist Readings of Masculine Trauma in Vietnam War LiteratureEsther Pérez Villalba - (Don’t) Trust the U.S. Government: Paul Greengrass’ United 93 and the 9/11 Conspiracy TheoriesDavid Río - The Desert as a National Sacrifice Zone: The Nuclear Controversy in Nevada FictionBoris Vejdovsky - Hidden Truths and Open Lies: The Performance of U.S. History and Mythography in Tony Kushner’s Angels in America and its Film AdaptationRobert Vorlicky - Dirty Laundry on the Line: Staging the Nation in Contemporary U.S. Drama and PerformanceSecret SelvesMarie C. Bouchet - Lolita, the Secret of/in Lolita: “Poerotics” of SecrecyCarmen Induráin Eraso - American Secrets on the Road towards the WestInmaculada Lara Bonilla - FamilySecrets: Carving Identity out of Silence in Borderlands/La Frontera.Steve Schessler - The Black Sheep I Am: Anne Sexton, Madness, and the Performance of ConfessionPaul Scott Derrick - Dickinson, Doubt, and the Skeptical Argument: Notes for a Defense of the UnspokenJefferey Simons - Enabling Secrecy: Hermeneutics, the Lyric, and Dickinson’s Poem 340(The) Other(´s) SecretsCarmen Flys Junquera - Whispers in the Wind, Visions in the Fog: Nature’s Secrets in Linda Hogan’s NovelsChristian Hummelsund Voie - Blood on the Tire Iron: Battle on Secret Ideological Frontiers in Brokeback MountainAitor Ibarrola-Armendariz - Secret Links in Edwidge Danticat’s The Dew Breaker: Reflections on Another Composite Novel by an Ethnic WriterMaría Frías - AIDS—The Disease With No Name?: Jamaica Kincaid’s My Brother (1997)NotesBibliography

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 SecretSecret Nation / Nation of SecretsShelley Fisher Fishkin - “None but the Dead Are Permitted to Tell the Truth”: Mark Twain’s Missives to the FutureCarmen Méndez García - The Ultimate Secrecy: Feminist Readings of Masculine Trauma in Vietnam War LiteratureEsther Pérez Villalba - (Don’t) Trust the U.S. Government: Paul Greengrass’ United 93 and the 9/11 Conspiracy TheoriesDavid Río - The Desert as a National Sacrifice Zone: The Nuclear Controversy in Nevada FictionBoris Vejdovsky - Hidden Truths and Open Lies: The Performance of U.S. History and Mythography in Tony Kushner’s Angels in America and its Film AdaptationRobert Vorlicky - Dirty Laundry on the Line: Staging the Nation in Contemporary U.S. Drama and PerformanceSecret SelvesMarie C. Bouchet - Lolita, the Secret of/in Lolita: “Poerotics” of SecrecyCarmen Induráin Eraso - American Secrets on the Road towards the WestInmaculada Lara Bonilla - FamilySecrets: Carving Identity out of Silence in Borderlands/La Frontera.Steve Schessler - The Black Sheep I Am: Anne Sexton, Madness, and the Performance of ConfessionPaul Scott Derrick - Dickinson, Doubt, and the Skeptical Argument: Notes for a Defense of the UnspokenJefferey Simons - Enabling Secrecy: Hermeneutics, the Lyric, and Dickinson’s Poem 340(The) Other(´s) SecretsCarmen Flys Junquera - Whispers in the Wind, Visions in the Fog: Nature’s Secrets in Linda Hogan’s NovelsChristian Hummelsund Voie - Blood on the Tire Iron: Battle on Secret Ideological Frontiers in Brokeback MountainAitor Ibarrola-Armendariz - Secret Links in Edwidge Danticat’s The Dew Breaker: Reflections on Another Composite Novel by an Ethnic WriterMaría Frías - AIDS—The Disease With No Name?: Jamaica Kincaid’s My Brother (1997)NotesBibliography

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 SecretSecret Nation / Nation of SecretsShelley Fisher Fishkin - “None but the Dead Are Permitted to Tell the Truth”: Mark Twain’s Missives to the FutureCarmen Méndez García - The Ultimate Secrecy: Feminist Readings of Masculine Trauma in Vietnam War LiteratureEsther Pérez Villalba - (Don’t) Trust the U.S. Government: Paul Greengrass’ United 93 and the 9/11 Conspiracy TheoriesDavid Río - The Desert as a National Sacrifice Zone: The Nuclear Controversy in Nevada FictionBoris Vejdovsky - Hidden Truths and Open Lies: The Performance of U.S. History and Mythography in Tony Kushner’s Angels in America and its Film AdaptationRobert Vorlicky - Dirty Laundry on the Line: Staging the Nation in Contemporary U.S. Drama and PerformanceSecret SelvesMarie C. Bouchet - Lolita, the Secret of/in Lolita: “Poerotics” of SecrecyCarmen Induráin Eraso - American Secrets on the Road towards the WestInmaculada Lara Bonilla - FamilySecrets: Carving Identity out of Silence in Borderlands/La Frontera.Steve Schessler - The Black Sheep I Am: Anne Sexton, Madness, and the Performance of ConfessionPaul Scott Derrick - Dickinson, Doubt, and the Skeptical Argument: Notes for a Defense of the UnspokenJefferey Simons - Enabling Secrecy: Hermeneutics, the Lyric, and Dickinson’s Poem 340(The) Other(´s) SecretsCarmen Flys Junquera - Whispers in the Wind, Visions in the Fog: Nature’s Secrets in Linda Hogan’s NovelsChristian Hummelsund Voie - Blood on the Tire Iron: Battle on Secret Ideological Frontiers in Brokeback MountainAitor Ibarrola-Armendariz - Secret Links in Edwidge Danticat’s The Dew Breaker: Reflections on Another Composite Novel by an Ethnic WriterMaría Frías - AIDS—The Disease With No Name?: Jamaica Kincaid’s My Brother (1997)NotesBibliography