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Life between two deaths, 1989-2001 : U.S. culture in the long nineties / Phillip E. Wegner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wegner, Phillip E., 1964-
- Series:
- Post-contemporary interventions.
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Post-contemporary interventions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nineteen nineties.
- United States--Civilization--1970-.
- United States.
- United States--History--1969-.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (296 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- An argument that it was only on September 11, 2001, that the symbolic universe of the Cold War was finally destroyed and a new world order put into place.
- Contents:
- Introduction: the present as a moment of danger
- The two deaths of the 1990s
- October 3, 1951, to September 11, 2001 : periodizing the Cold War in Don Delillo's Underworld
- I'll be back : repetitions and revisions in the Terminator films
- A fine tradition : the remaking of the United States in Cape Fear
- Where the prospective horizon is omitted : naturalism, dystopia, and politics in Fight Club and Ghost Dog
- A nightmare on the brain of the living : Messianic historicity, alienations and Independence Day
- As many as possible, thinking as much as possible : figures of the multitude In Joe Haldeman's Forever trilogy
- We're family : monstrous kinships, fidelity, and the event in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Octavia Butler's parable novels
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612923746
- 9780822390763
- 0822390760
- 9781282923744
- 1282923749
- OCLC:
- 428142930
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