02751nam 2200565Ia 450 991045834850332120200520144314.01-58729-890-2(CKB)2560000000007992(EBL)843211(OCoLC)503172983(SSID)ssj0000334462(PQKBManifestationID)11284367(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000334462(PQKBWorkID)10260352(PQKB)10659509(MiAaPQ)EBC843211(MdBmJHUP)muse8948(Au-PeEL)EBL843211(CaPaEBR)ebr10343474(EXLCZ)99256000000000799220090225d2009 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrAfter the end of history[electronic resource] American fiction in the 1990s /Samuel CohenIowa City University of Iowa Press20091 online resource (249 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-58729-815-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The End of History; 1. After Enlightenment: Mason & Dixon and the Ampersand; 2. After the Fall: Roth and the 1960's; 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; Notes; Works Cited; IndexIn this bold book, 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. With refreshing clarity, he examines six 1990's novels and two post-9/11 novels that explore the impact of the end of the Cold War: Pynchon's Mason & Dixon, Roth's American Pastoral, Morrison's Paradise, O'Brien's In the Lake of the Woods, Didion's The Last Thing He Wanted, Eugenides's Middlesex, Lethem's Fortress of Solitude, and DeLillo's Underworld. Cohen emphasizes how these works reconnect the past to a present that is iroAmerican fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismLiterature and historyUnited StatesHistory20th centuryElectronic books.American fictionHistory and criticism.Literature and historyHistory813.5409813/.5409Cohen Samuel S986935MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910458348503321After the end of history2255435UNINA