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.
| ISBN: | 9780230202955 |
| Publication date: | 29th January 2009 |
| Author: | Paul Crosthwaite |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan an imprint of Palgrave Macmillan UK |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 222 pages |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Second World War Cultural studies European history Fiction |