American postmodern fiction and the Cold War Grausam, Daniel 1975- creator ebrary, Inc text bibliography Electronic books. vau Charlottesville University of Virginia Press 2011 monographic eng

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viii, 196 p. 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. 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. Daniel Grausam. Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-189) and index. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. n-us--- Barth, John 1930- Criticism and interpretation Pynchon, Thomas Criticism and interpretation Powers, Richard 1957- Criticism and interpretation American fiction History and criticism Theory, etc Postmodernism (Literature) United States Cold War Influence Cold War in literature PS374.P64 G7 2011eb 813/.5409 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10554873 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10554873 CaPaEBR 110308 ebr10554873