Life
Between Two
Deaths:
U.S. Culture, 1989-2001
Table of Contents
Introduction
The Present as a Moment of Danger
Chapter
One
The
Two Deaths
of the 1990s
Chapter
Two
October
3, 1951
to September 11, 2001:
Periodizing
the
Cold War in Don DeLillo's Underworld
Chapter
Three
I'll
be Back:
Repetitions
and Revisions in the Terminator Films
Chapter
Four
A
Fine
Tradition:
The
Remaking of
the U.S. in Cape Fear
Chapter
Five
Where
the
Prospective Horizon is Omitted:
Naturalism,
Dystopia, and Politics in Fight Club and Ghost Dog
Chapter
Six
A
Nightmare on
the Brain of the Living:
Messianic
Historicity, Alienations, and Independence Day
Chapter
Seven
As
Many as
Possible, Thinking As Much as Possible:
Figures
of the
Multitude in Joe Haldeman's Forever Trilogy
Chapter
Eight
We're
Family:
Monstrous
Kinships, Fidelity, and the Event in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
and
Octavia
Butler's Parable
Novels
Notes.
Walter
Benjamin, The
Arcades Project
Historical
freedom, indeed, expanding and contracting as it does with the
objective
conditions themselves, never seems greater than in such transitional
periods,
where the life-style has not yet taken on the rigidity of a period
manner, and
when there is sudden release from the old without any corresponding
obligation
to that which will come to take its place.
Fredric
Jameson, Marxism
and Form
Professor
Malik
Solanka felt more than ever like a refugee in a small boat, caught
between
surging tides: reason and unreason, war and peace, the future and the
past.
Salman
Rushdie, Fury