The first sustained study of the relationship between Anglo-American postmodernist fiction and the Second World War, Crosthwaite demonstrates that postmodernism has not abandoned history but has rather reformulated it in terms of trauma that is traceable, time and again, to the catastrophes of the 1940s. INDICE: Introduction - War, Trauma, Postmodernism - Gravityb s Rainbow andTraumatic Models of History - 'A Secret Code of Pain and Memory': Traumatic Repetition in the Fiction of J.G. Ballard - Total War and the English Stream-of-Consciousness Novel: From Mrs Dalloway to Mother London - Their Fathersb War:Negotiating the Legacy of World War II in Prisonerb s Dilemma and Atonement -Conclusion: Writing/Reading World War II After 9/11 - Bibliography - Index
- ISBN: 978-0-230-20295-5
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 240
- Fecha Publicación: 29/01/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés