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After the end of history : American fiction in the 1990s
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After the end of history : American fiction in the 1990s

Author: Samuel S Cohen
Publisher: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2009.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Samuel Cohen asserts the literary and historical importance of the period between the fall of the Berlin wall and that of the Twin Towers in New York. He examines six 1990s novels and two post-9/11 novels that explore the impact of the end of the Cold War. Cohen emphasizes how these works reconnect the past to a present that is ironically keen on denying that connection. --from publisher description
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Samuel S Cohen
ISBN: 9781587298158 1587298155
OCLC Number: 311074765
Description: x, 237 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction : the end of history --
1. After enlightenment : Mason & Dixon and the ampersand --
2. After the fall : Roth and the 1960s --
3. After Identity : Morrison and genealogy --
4. How to tell a true Cold War story : O'Brien, Didion, and closure --
5. History is what heals : 9/11 and narrative in eugenides and Lethem --
Afterword : DeLillo and the anticipation of retrospection.
Responsibility: Samuel Cohen.
Local System Bib Number:
ocn311074765

Abstract:

Samuel Cohen asserts the literary and historical importance of the period between the fall of the Berlin wall and that of the Twin Towers in New York. He examines six 1990s novels and two post-9/11 novels that explore the impact of the end of the Cold War. Cohen emphasizes how these works reconnect the past to a present that is ironically keen on denying that connection. --from publisher description
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