Empire Burlesque: The Fate of Critical Culture in Global AmericaEmpire Burlesque traces the emergence of the contemporary global context within which American critical identity is formed. Daniel T. O'Hara argues that globalization has had a markedly negative impact on American cultural criticism, circumscribing both its material and imaginative potential, reducing much of it to absurdity. By highlighting the spectacle of its own self parody, O'Hara aims to shock U. S. cultural criticism back into a sense of