LEADER 02718nam 2200553Ia 450 001 9910791135303321 005 20230721012116.0 010 $a1-58729-890-2 035 $a(CKB)2560000000007992 035 $a(EBL)843211 035 $a(OCoLC)503172983 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000334462 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11284367 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000334462 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10260352 035 $a(PQKB)10659509 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC843211 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse8948 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL843211 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10343474 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000007992 100 $a20090225d2009 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAfter the end of history$b[electronic resource] $eAmerican fiction in the 1990s /$fSamuel Cohen 210 $aIowa City $cUniversity of Iowa Press$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (249 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-58729-815-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCONTENTS; 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; Index 330 $aIn 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 iro 606 $aAmerican fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLiterature and history$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLiterature and history$xHistory 676 $a813.5409 676 $a813/.5409 700 $aCohen$b Samuel S$01474955 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910791135303321 996 $aAfter the end of history$93769806 997 $aUNINA