On endings : American postmodern fiction and the Cold War / Daniel Grausam.
2011
PS374.P64 G7 2011 (Mapit)
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Title
On endings : American postmodern fiction and the Cold War / Daniel Grausam.
Author
Grausam, Daniel, 1975-
ISBN
9780813931616 (alk. paper)
0813931614 (alk. paper)
9780813931623 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0813931622 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0813931614 (alk. paper)
9780813931623 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0813931622 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Publication Details
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2011.
Language
English
Description
viii, 196 p. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
PS374.P64 G7 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification
813/.5409
Summary
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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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction: 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.
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.