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After the end of history [[electronic resource] ] : American fiction in the 1990s / / Samuel Cohen
After the end of history [[electronic resource] ] : American fiction in the 1990s / / Samuel Cohen
Autore Cohen Samuel S
Pubbl/distr/stampa Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, 2009
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (249 p.)
Disciplina 813.5409
813/.5409
Soggetto topico American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism
Literature and history - United States - History - 20th century
Soggetto genere / forma Electronic books.
ISBN 1-58729-890-2
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto 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; Index
Record Nr. UNINA-9910458348503321
Cohen Samuel S  
Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, 2009
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After the end of history [[electronic resource] ] : American fiction in the 1990s / / Samuel Cohen
After the end of history [[electronic resource] ] : American fiction in the 1990s / / Samuel Cohen
Autore Cohen Samuel S
Pubbl/distr/stampa Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, 2009
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (249 p.)
Disciplina 813.5409
813/.5409
Soggetto topico American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism
Literature and history - United States - History - 20th century
ISBN 1-58729-890-2
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto 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; Index
Record Nr. UNINA-9910791135303321
Cohen Samuel S  
Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, 2009
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After the end of history : American fiction in the 1990s / / Samuel Cohen
After the end of history : American fiction in the 1990s / / Samuel Cohen
Autore Cohen Samuel S
Edizione [1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, 2009
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (249 p.)
Disciplina 813.5409
813/.5409
Soggetto topico American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism
Literature and history - United States - History - 20th century
ISBN 1-58729-890-2
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto 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; Index
Record Nr. UNINA-9910811676803321
Cohen Samuel S  
Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, 2009
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The alternate history [[electronic resource] ] : refiguring historical time / / Karen Hellekson
The alternate history [[electronic resource] ] : refiguring historical time / / Karen Hellekson
Autore Hellekson Karen <1966->
Pubbl/distr/stampa Kent, Ohio, : Kent State University Press, c2001
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (141 p.)
Disciplina 813/.0876209358
Soggetto topico Historical fiction, American - History and criticism
Literature and history - United States - History - 20th century
American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism
Science fiction, American - History and criticism
History - Errors, inventions, etc
Time travel in literature
History in literature
Time in literature
Soggetto genere / forma Electronic books.
ISBN 1-61277-269-2
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto ""Cover""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""1. Inventing the Past: A Brief Background of the Alternate History""; ""2. Ward Moore's Bring the Jubilee: Alternate History, Narrativity, and the Nature of Time""; ""3. Parallel Worlds: Simultaneity and Time""; ""4. Narrative, Temporality, and Historicity in Philip K. Dick's: The Man in the High Castle""; ""5. Looking Forward: William Gibson and Bruce Sterling's: The Difference Engine""; ""6. Looking Backward: Entropy and Brian Aldiss's: The Malacia Tapestry""
""7. Poul Anderson's Time Patrol as Anti�Alternate History""""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""
Record Nr. UNINA-9910465671303321
Hellekson Karen <1966->  
Kent, Ohio, : Kent State University Press, c2001
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The alternate history [[electronic resource] ] : refiguring historical time / / Karen Hellekson
The alternate history [[electronic resource] ] : refiguring historical time / / Karen Hellekson
Autore Hellekson Karen <1966->
Pubbl/distr/stampa Kent, Ohio, : Kent State University Press, c2001
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (141 p.)
Disciplina 813/.0876209358
Soggetto topico Historical fiction, American - History and criticism
Literature and history - United States - History - 20th century
American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism
Science fiction, American - History and criticism
History - Errors, inventions, etc
Time travel in literature
History in literature
Time in literature
ISBN 1-61277-269-2
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto ""Cover""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""1. Inventing the Past: A Brief Background of the Alternate History""; ""2. Ward Moore's Bring the Jubilee: Alternate History, Narrativity, and the Nature of Time""; ""3. Parallel Worlds: Simultaneity and Time""; ""4. Narrative, Temporality, and Historicity in Philip K. Dick's: The Man in the High Castle""; ""5. Looking Forward: William Gibson and Bruce Sterling's: The Difference Engine""; ""6. Looking Backward: Entropy and Brian Aldiss's: The Malacia Tapestry""
""7. Poul Anderson's Time Patrol as Anti�Alternate History""""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""
Record Nr. UNINA-9910792023003321
Hellekson Karen <1966->  
Kent, Ohio, : Kent State University Press, c2001
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The alternate history : refiguring historical time / / Karen Hellekson
The alternate history : refiguring historical time / / Karen Hellekson
Autore Hellekson Karen <1966->
Edizione [1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Kent, Ohio, : Kent State University Press, c2001
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (141 p.)
Disciplina 813/.0876209358
Soggetto topico Historical fiction, American - History and criticism
Literature and history - United States - History - 20th century
American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism
Science fiction, American - History and criticism
History - Errors, inventions, etc
Time travel in literature
History in literature
Time in literature
ISBN 1-61277-269-2
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto ""Cover""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""1. Inventing the Past: A Brief Background of the Alternate History""; ""2. Ward Moore's Bring the Jubilee: Alternate History, Narrativity, and the Nature of Time""; ""3. Parallel Worlds: Simultaneity and Time""; ""4. Narrative, Temporality, and Historicity in Philip K. Dick's: The Man in the High Castle""; ""5. Looking Forward: William Gibson and Bruce Sterling's: The Difference Engine""; ""6. Looking Backward: Entropy and Brian Aldiss's: The Malacia Tapestry""
""7. Poul Anderson's Time Patrol as Anti�Alternate History""""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""
Record Nr. UNINA-9910817096403321
Hellekson Karen <1966->  
Kent, Ohio, : Kent State University Press, c2001
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Black on Black : twentieth-century African American writing about Africa / / John Cullen Gruesser
Black on Black : twentieth-century African American writing about Africa / / John Cullen Gruesser
Autore Gruesser John Cullen <1959->
Pubbl/distr/stampa Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 2000
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (230 pages)
Disciplina 810.9/326/08996073
Soggetto topico American literature - African American authors - History and criticism
Literature and history - United States - History - 20th century
American literature - 20th century - History and criticism
Public opinion - United States - History - 20th century
African Americans - Attitudes - History - 20th century
African Americans - Intellectual life - 20th century
American literature - African influences
Soggetto genere / forma Electronic books.
ISBN 0-8131-3254-1
0-8131-5880-X
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; 1. Historical and Theoretical Introduction to African American Writing about Africa; The Origins, Evolution, and Influence of ethiopianism; Discourse and Genre Tensions in African American Depictions of Africa; 2. Double-Consciousness, Ethiopianism, and Africa; The ""Warring Ideals"" of Africa and America in the Novels of Sutton C. Griggs; Pauline flopkins's Excavation of a Usable African Past in Of One Blood; John E. Bruce's Ethiopianist Investigation of Anglo-Saxon Race Prejudice in The Black Sleuth.
3. The New Negro and AfricaShirley Graham's Forging of Dramatic Links between African and African American Art and Experience in Tom-Tom; Harry Dean and the Dream of an Ethiopian Empire; from Life to Literature in The Big Sea; Saving a ""White"" Woman (and Liberia, Too) in Henry r. Downing's The American Cavalryman; Exporting Manifest Destiny and Economic Prosperity to Africa in Gilbert Lubin's The Promised Land; Realism, Melodrama, and Allegory in George S. Schuyler's Slaves Today; 4. The African American Literary Response to the Ethiopian Crisis; The Italo-Cthiopian War and Black America.
Langston Hughes and Melvin Tolson's Shift from a Racial to a Marxian Approach to the Ethiopian ConflictGeorge Schuyler's Strongest Attacks on Race Chauvinism in the Black empire Novels; Pan-African Resistance to fascism in George Schuyler's ""Revolt in Ethiopia""; 5. The Promise of Africa-To-Be in Melvin Tolson's Libretto for the Republic of Liberia; 6. The Movement Away from Ethiopianism in African American Writing about Africa; Attempting to Escape Prepossessions in Black Power; Lorraine Hansberry's Answer to Heart of Darkness in Les Blancs; The End of Ethiopianism in The Color Purple.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910460456803321
Gruesser John Cullen <1959->  
Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 2000
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Black on Black : twentieth-century African American writing about Africa / / John Cullen Gruesser
Black on Black : twentieth-century African American writing about Africa / / John Cullen Gruesser
Autore Gruesser John Cullen <1959->
Pubbl/distr/stampa Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 2000
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (230 pages)
Disciplina 810.9/326/08996073
Soggetto topico American literature - African American authors - History and criticism
Literature and history - United States - History - 20th century
American literature - 20th century - History and criticism
Public opinion - United States - History - 20th century
African Americans - Attitudes - History - 20th century
African Americans - Intellectual life - 20th century
American literature - African influences
ISBN 0-8131-3254-1
0-8131-5880-X
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; 1. Historical and Theoretical Introduction to African American Writing about Africa; The Origins, Evolution, and Influence of ethiopianism; Discourse and Genre Tensions in African American Depictions of Africa; 2. Double-Consciousness, Ethiopianism, and Africa; The ""Warring Ideals"" of Africa and America in the Novels of Sutton C. Griggs; Pauline flopkins's Excavation of a Usable African Past in Of One Blood; John E. Bruce's Ethiopianist Investigation of Anglo-Saxon Race Prejudice in The Black Sleuth.
3. The New Negro and AfricaShirley Graham's Forging of Dramatic Links between African and African American Art and Experience in Tom-Tom; Harry Dean and the Dream of an Ethiopian Empire; from Life to Literature in The Big Sea; Saving a ""White"" Woman (and Liberia, Too) in Henry r. Downing's The American Cavalryman; Exporting Manifest Destiny and Economic Prosperity to Africa in Gilbert Lubin's The Promised Land; Realism, Melodrama, and Allegory in George S. Schuyler's Slaves Today; 4. The African American Literary Response to the Ethiopian Crisis; The Italo-Cthiopian War and Black America.
Langston Hughes and Melvin Tolson's Shift from a Racial to a Marxian Approach to the Ethiopian ConflictGeorge Schuyler's Strongest Attacks on Race Chauvinism in the Black empire Novels; Pan-African Resistance to fascism in George Schuyler's ""Revolt in Ethiopia""; 5. The Promise of Africa-To-Be in Melvin Tolson's Libretto for the Republic of Liberia; 6. The Movement Away from Ethiopianism in African American Writing about Africa; Attempting to Escape Prepossessions in Black Power; Lorraine Hansberry's Answer to Heart of Darkness in Les Blancs; The End of Ethiopianism in The Color Purple.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910787472203321
Gruesser John Cullen <1959->  
Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 2000
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Black on Black : twentieth-century African American writing about Africa / / John Cullen Gruesser
Black on Black : twentieth-century African American writing about Africa / / John Cullen Gruesser
Autore Gruesser John Cullen <1959->
Pubbl/distr/stampa Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 2000
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (230 pages)
Disciplina 810.9/326/08996073
Soggetto topico American literature - African American authors - History and criticism
Literature and history - United States - History - 20th century
American literature - 20th century - History and criticism
Public opinion - United States - History - 20th century
African Americans - Attitudes - History - 20th century
African Americans - Intellectual life - 20th century
American literature - African influences
ISBN 0-8131-3254-1
0-8131-5880-X
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; 1. Historical and Theoretical Introduction to African American Writing about Africa; The Origins, Evolution, and Influence of ethiopianism; Discourse and Genre Tensions in African American Depictions of Africa; 2. Double-Consciousness, Ethiopianism, and Africa; The ""Warring Ideals"" of Africa and America in the Novels of Sutton C. Griggs; Pauline flopkins's Excavation of a Usable African Past in Of One Blood; John E. Bruce's Ethiopianist Investigation of Anglo-Saxon Race Prejudice in The Black Sleuth.
3. The New Negro and AfricaShirley Graham's Forging of Dramatic Links between African and African American Art and Experience in Tom-Tom; Harry Dean and the Dream of an Ethiopian Empire; from Life to Literature in The Big Sea; Saving a ""White"" Woman (and Liberia, Too) in Henry r. Downing's The American Cavalryman; Exporting Manifest Destiny and Economic Prosperity to Africa in Gilbert Lubin's The Promised Land; Realism, Melodrama, and Allegory in George S. Schuyler's Slaves Today; 4. The African American Literary Response to the Ethiopian Crisis; The Italo-Cthiopian War and Black America.
Langston Hughes and Melvin Tolson's Shift from a Racial to a Marxian Approach to the Ethiopian ConflictGeorge Schuyler's Strongest Attacks on Race Chauvinism in the Black empire Novels; Pan-African Resistance to fascism in George Schuyler's ""Revolt in Ethiopia""; 5. The Promise of Africa-To-Be in Melvin Tolson's Libretto for the Republic of Liberia; 6. The Movement Away from Ethiopianism in African American Writing about Africa; Attempting to Escape Prepossessions in Black Power; Lorraine Hansberry's Answer to Heart of Darkness in Les Blancs; The End of Ethiopianism in The Color Purple.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910819665503321
Gruesser John Cullen <1959->  
Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 2000
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Death of a nation [[electronic resource] ] : American culture and the end of exceptionalism / / David W. Noble ; foreword by George Lipsitz
Death of a nation [[electronic resource] ] : American culture and the end of exceptionalism / / David W. Noble ; foreword by George Lipsitz
Autore Noble David W
Pubbl/distr/stampa Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2002
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (400 p.)
Disciplina 801/.95/09730904
Collana Critical American studies series
Soggetto topico Criticism - United States - History - 20th century
Nationalism and literature - United States - History - 20th century
Literature and history - United States - History - 20th century
American literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc
Soggetto genere / forma Electronic books.
ISBN 0-8166-9440-0
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto The birth and death of American history -- Historians leaving home, killing fathers -- The crisis of American literary criticism from World War I to World War II -- Elegies for the national landscape -- The new literary criticism : the death of the nation born in New England -- The vanishing national landscape : painting, architecture, music, and philosophy in the early twentieth century -- The disintegration of national boundaries : literary criticism in the late twentieth century -- The end of American history.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910452179903321
Noble David W  
Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2002
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