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Interrogation Over

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

James Simpson
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Google Ngram Viewer reports that usage of the word interrogation has been climbing steadily since 1942. liberals will of course argue, not without force, that the George W. Bush administration's embrace of “enhanced interrogation” (i.e., torture) drove the recent steady rise. To that sound point one might, however, also advance a less palatable observation: that representatives of the academy were in the interrogation room, doing the interrogating, long before the Bush administration got into the act.

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PMLA , Volume 132 , Issue 2 , March 2017 , pp. 377 - 383
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 2017

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