Postmodern Apocalypse: Theory and Cultural Practice at the EndRichard Dellamora From accounts of the Holocaust, to representations of AIDS, to predictions of environmental disaster; from Hal Lindsey's fundamentalist 1970s bestseller The Late Great Planet Earth, to Francis Fukuyama's The End of History and the Last Man in 1992, the sense of apocalypse is very much with us. In Postmodern Apocalypse, Richard Dellamora and his contributors examine apocalypse in works by late twentieth-century writers, filmmakers, and critics. |
Contents
Fascism and the Deaths of History | 17 |
Notes on a Greek Word Applied to Jews | 41 |
Frye Derrida Pynchon and the Apocalyptic Space | 61 |
The Whiteness of the Bomb | 79 |
Sexual Politics and the Violence | 107 |
Framing William Burroughs | 136 |
Can the Apocalypse Be Post? | 171 |
Desire and Labor in the Terminator Films | 182 |
Issues and Methods | 199 |
IceTJacques Derrida | 241 |
Apocalypticism and the | 262 |
Agrippa or The Apocalyptic Book | 277 |
Common terms and phrases
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