After the End: Representations of Post-apocalypseU of Minnesota Press, 1999 - 278 strani In this study of the cultural pursuit of the end and what follows, Berger contends that every apocalyptic depiction leaves something behind, some mixture of paradise and wasteland. Combining literary, psychoanalytic, and historical methods, Berger mines these depictions for their weight and influence on current culture. He applies wide-ranging evidence--from science fiction to Holocaust literature, from Thomas Pynchon to talk shows, from American politics to the fiction of Toni Morrison--to reveal how representations of apocalyptic endings are indelibly marked by catastrophic histories. |
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How to Speak after the End of Language | 3 |
Trauma and the End of the World 19 0 | 19 |
Representing the Holocaust after the End of Testimony | 59 |
Derrida and the Holocaust | 106 |
The Reaganist PostApocalypse | 133 |
Traumas PostApocalyptic Returns | 169 |
Epilogue | 217 |
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