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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.

Barth, John --- Pynchon, Thomas --- Powers, Richard --- Cold War in literature --- Guerre froide dans la littérature --- Koude oorlog in de literatuur --- American fiction --- Cold War --- Postmodernism (Literature) --- American literature --- History and criticism&delete& --- Theory, etc --- Influence --- Barth, John, --- Powers, Richard, --- Bart, Dz︠h︡on, --- Pinchon, Tomas --- Criticism and interpretation. --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc. --- United States --- Criticism and interpretation --- Paouers, Ritsarnt, --- Παουερς, Ριτσαρντ, --- Cold War in literature. --- Influence.