Wegner / Fish / Jameson Life between Two Deaths, 1989-2001

U.S. Culture in the Long Nineties
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9076-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 296 Seiten

Reihe: Post-Contemporary Interventions

An argument that it was only on September 11, 2001, that the symbolic universe of the Cold War was finally destroyed and a new world order put into place.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wegner, Philip E.

Fish, Stanley

Jameson, Fredric

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction: The Present as a Moment of Danger 3

1. The Two Deaths of the 1990s 17

2. October 3, 1951, to September 11, 2001: Periodizing the Cold War in Don DeLillo's Underworld 43

3. I'll Be Back: Repetitions and Revisions in the Terminator Films 60

4. A Fine Tradition: The Remaking of the United States in Cape Fear 85

5. Where the Prospective Horizon is Omitted: Naturalism, Dystopia, and Politics in Fight Club and Ghost Dog 117

6. A Nightmare on the Brain of the Living: Messianic Historicity, Alienations, and Independence Day 137

7. As Many as Possible, Thinking as Much as Possible: Figures of the Multitude in Joe Haldeman's Forever Trilogy 166

8. We're Family: Monstrous Kinships, Fidelity, and the Event in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Octavia Butler's Parable Novels 195

Notes 219

Bibliography 245

Index 261

Über Autor(innen)

Phillip E. Wegner is Associate Professor of English at the University of Florida. He is the author of Imaginary Communities: Utopia, the Nation, and the Spatial Histories of Modernity.