Wegner, Phillip E., 1964-

Life between two deaths, 1989-2001 : U.S. culture in the long nineties / Phillip E. Wegner. - Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2009. - 279 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Post-contemporary interventions . - Post-contemporary interventions. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-259) and index.

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

9780822344582 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780822344735 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2009003276


Nineteen nineties.


United States--Civilization--1970-
United States--History--1969-
Estados Unidos--Civilización--1970-
Estados Unidos--Historia--1969-

002 E 169.12 / W412l 2009

973.92