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American postmodern fiction and the Cold War

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An edition of On endings (2011)

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American postmodern fiction and the Cold War

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What 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.

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University of Virginia Press
Language
English
Pages
196

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Subjects
Cold War, Theory, Postmodernism (Literature), Influence, History and criticism, Criticism and interpretation, American fiction, Cold War in literature, Barth, john, 1930-, Pynchon, thomas, 1937-, American fiction, history and criticism
People
John Barth (1930-), Thomas Pynchon, Richard Powers (1957-)
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United States

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Table of Contents

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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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813/.5409
Library of Congress
PS374.P64 G7 2011, PS374.P64G7 2011

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p. cm.
Number of pages
196

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OL24827454M
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ISBN 13
9780813931616, 9780813931623, 9780813931661
LCCN
2011008422
OCLC/WorldCat
706803957

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