ISBN: 1349300918 9781349300914

Category: Literary Criticism / Modern / 20th Century

Page count: 222

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.