Life between two deaths, 1989-2001
Subtitle: U.S. culture in the long nineties
By: Phillip E. Wegner.
Series: Post-contemporary interventions; Post-contemporary interventions
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Durham [NC]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9780822344582; 9780822344735
Subjects: Nineteen nineties; United States -- Civilization -- 1970-; United States -- History -- 1969-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the present as a moment of danger; title: The two deaths of the 1990s; title: October 3, 1951, to September 11, 2001 : periodizing the Cold War in Don Delillo's Underworld; title: I'll be back : repetitions and revisions in the Terminator films; title: A fine tradition : the remaking of the United States in Cape Fear; title: Where the prospective horizon is omitted : naturalism, dystopia, and politics in Fight Club and Ghost Dog; title: A nightmare on the brain of the living : Messianic historicity, alienations and Independence Day; title: As many as possible, thinking as much as possible : figures of the multitude In Joe Haldeman's Forever trilogy; title: We're family : monstrous kinships, fidelity, and the event in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Octavia Butler's parable novels