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After the End: Representations of Post-Apocalypse
After the End Representations of PostApocalypse Author:James Berger 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 e... more »vidence -- 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.
Contents:
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Pt. I: Thinking the Post-Apocalypse: 1. Post-Apocalyptic Rhetorics: How to Speak after the End of Language
2. Trauma and the End of the World
Pt. II: Aftermaths of the Holocaust: 3. Representing the Holocaust after the End of Testimony
4. The Absent Referent: Derrida and the Holocaust
Pt. III: American Post-Apocalypses: 5. "Achieved Utopias": The Reaganist Post-Apocalypse
6. Not the Last Word: Trauma's Post-Apocalyptic Returns