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100 1 $aGrausam, Daniel,$d1975-
245 10 $aOn endings :$bAmerican postmodern fiction and the Cold War /$cDaniel Grausam.
260 $aCharlottesville :$bUniversity of Virginia Press,$c2011.
300 $aviii, 196 p. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [179]-189) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: On endings -- Institutionalizing postmodernism: John Barth and modern war -- The Crying of Lot 49, circa 1642; or, Pynchon, periodicity, and total war -- The time of the nation, the time of the state -- Unthinking the thinkability of the unthinkable -- Trying to understand end zone -- The dominant tense: Richard Powers and late postmodernism -- Afterword: Critical conventions/postmodern canons.
520 $aWhat does narrative look like when the possibility of an expansive future has been called into question? This query is the driving force behind Daniel Grausam's On Endings, which seeks to show how the core texts of American postmodernism are a response to the geopolitical dynamics of the Cold War and especially to the new potential for total nuclear conflict. Postwar American fiction needs to be rethought, he argues, by highlighting postmodern experimentation as a mode of profound historical consciousness. On Endings significantly extends the project of historicizing postmodernism while returning the nuclear to a central place in the study of the Cold War.
650 0 $aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc.
650 0 $aPostmodernism (Literature)$zUnited States.
650 0 $aCold War$xInfluence.
650 0 $aCold War in literature.
600 10 $aBarth, John,$d1930-$xCriticism and interpretation.
600 10 $aPynchon, Thomas$xCriticism and interpretation.
600 10 $aPowers, Richard,$d1957-$xCriticism and interpretation.