Trauma, postmodernism and the aftermath of world war ii
Auteur :
Crosthwaite, P.
Éditeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN :
9781349300914
Date de publication :
29 janv. 2009
Dimensions :
21,6 x 14,0 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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.