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Life between Two Deaths, 1989-2001 : U.S. Culture in the Long Nineties /
An argument that it was only on September 11, 2001, that the symbolic universe of the Cold War was finally destroyed and a new world order put into place.
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Durham [NC] :
Duke University Press,
2009.
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Introduction: the present as a moment of danger
- The two deaths of the 1990s
- October 3, 1951, to September 11, 2001 : periodizing the Cold War in Don Delillo's Underworld
- I'll be back : repetitions and revisions in the Terminator films
- A fine tradition : the remaking of the United States in Cape Fear
- Where the prospective horizon is omitted : naturalism, dystopia, and politics in Fight Club and Ghost Dog
- A nightmare on the brain of the living : Messianic historicity, alienations and Independence Day
- As many as possible, thinking as much as possible : figures of the multitude In Joe Haldeman's Forever trilogy
- We're family : monstrous kinships, fidelity, and the event in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Octavia Butler's parable novels.