TY - BOOK ID - 380086 TI - On endings : American postmodern fiction and the Cold War PY - 2011 SN - 9780813931616 9780813931623 9780813931661 0813931665 0813931614 0813931622 1280490624 9781280490620 9786613585851 6613585858 PB - Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, DB - UniCat KW - Barth, John KW - Pynchon, Thomas KW - Powers, Richard KW - Cold War in literature KW - Guerre froide dans la littérature KW - Koude oorlog in de literatuur KW - American fiction KW - Cold War KW - Postmodernism (Literature) KW - American literature KW - History and criticism&delete& KW - Theory, etc KW - Influence KW - Barth, John, KW - Powers, Richard, KW - Bart, Dz︠h︡on, KW - Pinchon, Tomas KW - Criticism and interpretation. KW - History and criticism KW - Theory, etc. KW - United States KW - Criticism and interpretation KW - Paouers, Ritsarnt, KW - Παουερς, Ριτσαρντ, KW - Cold War in literature. KW - Influence. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:380086 AB - 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. ER -