Description
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.
Keywords
WORLD WAR, 1939-1945_LITERATURE AND THE WARENGLISH FICTION_HISTORY AND CRITICISM_20TH CENTURYAMERICAN FICTION_HISTORY AND CRITICISM_20TH CENTURYWAR IN LITERATUREWORLD WAR, 1939-1945_PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTSWAR AND LITERATUREPOSTMODERNISM (LITERATURE)