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On endings : American postmodern fiction and the Cold War /
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 W...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 196 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-189) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780813931661 0813931665 1280490624 9781280490620 9786613585851 6613585858 |