From the Civil War to the apocalypse
Subtitle: postmodern history and American fiction
By: Timothy Parrish.
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Amherst
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781558496279; 9781558496262
Subjects: American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; History in literature; Literature and history -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Postmodernism (Literature)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Absalom, absalom!: Faulkner's true history of the south; title: Cormac McCarthy's Blood meridian : the first and last book of America; title: Off Faulkner's plantation : Toni Morrison's beloved and song of Solomon; title: Pynchon's Mason & Dixon : drawing a line in the Sands of history; title: History after Henry Adams and Ronald Reagan : Joan Didion's democracy and Don Delillo's underworld; title: Denis Johnson's Fiskadoro: postcolonial America.