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Trauma, postmodernism, and the aftermath of World War II

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Trauma, postmodernism, and the aftermath of World War IIPaul Crosthwaite.
Author:	Crosthwaite, Paul,
Published:	Basingstoke [England] ;Palgrave Macmillan,2009.
Description:	1 online resource (vii, 222 p.)
Notes:	Description based on print version record.
Subject:	World War, 1939-1945Literature and the war.
Online resource:	access to fulltext (Palgrave)
ISBN:	9780230594722 (electronic bk.)

Trauma, postmodernism, and the aftermath of World War II
Crosthwaite, Paul,1980-

Trauma, postmodernism, and the aftermath of World War II[electronic resource] /Paul Crosthwaite. - Basingstoke [England] ;Palgrave Macmillan,2009. - 1 online resource (vii, 222 p.)

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 182-217) and index.

War, trauma, postmodernism -- Gravity's rainbow and traumatic modelsof history -- "A secret code of pain and memory": traumatic repetitionin the fiction of J.G. Ballard -- Total war and the English stream-of-consciousness novel: from Mrs Dalloway to Mother London -- Their fathers' war: negotiating the legacy of World War II in Prisoner's dilemma and Atonement.

The radical, 'postmodernist' waves of experimentation that swept Anglo-American fiction from the late 1960s constitute a delayed response to the upheavals of the Second World War, yet the legacy of the war barely figures in prevalent accounts of the postmodernist movement. As PaulCrosthwaite shows in this provocative book, to recognize the significance of the war in contemporary culture is to acknowledge that postmodernism, as a sensibility, aesthetic style, and mode of thought, must be entirely reconceived. Challenging dominant theorizations of the postmodern as depthless and dehistoricized, Crosthwaite demonstrates that postmodernism has not abandoned history but has rather reformulated it in terms of trauma, trauma that is traceable, time and again, to the catastrophes of the 1940s. The book stages a revealing confrontation between influential theories of trauma and postmodernism and offers innovative close readings of key texts by Virginia Woolf, Thomas Pynchon, Michael Moorcock, J.G. Ballard, Richard Powers and Ian McEwan.

ISBN: 9780230594722 (electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1057/9780230594722doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

177169
World War, 1939-1945
--Literature and the war.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

214472
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PR888.W66 / C76 2009eb

Dewey Class. No.: 823/.91209358

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