After the End of History American Fiction in the 1990s 1st Edition by Samuel Cohen ISBN 1587298155 9781587298158

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ISBN 10: 1587298155 
ISBN 13: 9781587298158
Author: Samuel Cohen

In 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 1990s 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 ironically keen on denying that connection. Exploring the ways ideas about paradise and pastoral, difference and exclusion, innocence and righteousness, triumph and trauma deform the stories Americans tell themselves about their nation’s past, After the End of History challenges us to reconsider these works in a new light, offering fresh, insightful readings of what are destined to be classic works of literature.

At the same time, Cohen enters into the theoretical discussion about postmodern historical understanding. Throwing his hat in the ring with force and style, he confronts not only Francis Fukuyama’s triumphalist response to the fall of the Soviet Union but also the other literary and political “end of history” claims put forth by such theorists as Fredric Jameson and Walter Benn Michaels. In a straightforward, affecting style, After the End of History offers us a new vision for the capabilities and confines of contemporary fiction.

After the End of History American Fiction in the 1990s 1st Table of contents:

1. Chapter One: After Enlightenment: Mason & Dixon and the Ampersand (focusing on Thomas Pynchon’s Mason & Dixon)
2. Chapter Two: After the Fall: Roth and the 1960s (focusing on Philip Roth’s American Pastoral)
3. Chapter Three: After Identity: Morrison and Genealogy (focusing on Toni Morrison’s Paradise)
4. Chapter Four: How to Tell a True Cold War Story: O’Brien, Didion, and Closure (focusing on Tim O’Brien’s In the Lake of the Woods and Joan Didion’s The Last Thing He Wanted)
5. Chapter Five: History Is What Heals: 9/11 and Narrative in Eugenides and Lethem (focusing on Jeffrey Eugenides’s Middlesex and Jonathan Lethem’s Fortress of Solitude)

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