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The ends of America, the ends of postmodernism
Twentieth Century Literature, Fall, 2007 by Rachel Adams
Notes
1. These include works by Janet Abu-Lughod, Jean Baudrillard, Umberto Eco, Fredric Jameson, and Edward Soja.
2. See also Ann Douglas and Patrick O'Donnell.
3. For varying examples of this terminology, see Samir Amin, Arjun Appadurai, Thomas Friedman, and Saskia Sassen.
4. To put this in some perspective, there are 1,184 articles on Pynchon in the MLA database, compared with 886 on Gertrude Stein, 649 on Ralph Ellison, and 395 on John Dos Passos, three of the most important US modernists of the previous generation.
5. See Gordon Slethaug xvi.
6. This sentiment was dramatized on film just two years earlier in Sidney Lumet's Fail-Safe and its darkly comic counterpart, Stanley Kubrick's Doctor Strangelove.
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7. See Mike Davis's City of Quartz and Ecology of Fear, Jameson, and Soja.
8. See also Yamashita's Through the Arc of the Rainforest, Brazil Maru, and Circle K Cycles.
9. See Davis's Magical Urbanism and Huntington's "The Hispanic Challenge."
10. See for example Jane C. Desmond and Virginia R. Dominguez, Claire Fox and Claudia Sadowski-Smith, Paul Giles, Paul Gilroy, Gregory S. Jay, Amy Kaplan and Donald Pease, John Muthyala, Carolyn Porter, Joseph Roach, John Carlos Rowe's "Nineteenth-Century US Literary Culture and Transnationality" and Post-Nationalist American Studies, Jose David Saldivar, and Doris Sommer.
Works cited
Abu-Lughod, Janet. New York, Chicago, Los Angeles: America's Global Cities. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1999.
Amin, Samir. Capitalism in the Age of Globalization: The Management of Contemporary Society. London: Zed, 1997.
Appadurai, Arjun. "Dead Certainty: Ethnic Violence in the Era of Globalization." Development and Change 29.4 (1998): 905-925.
Arrighi, Giovanni, Terence K. Hopkins, and Immanuel Wallerstein. Antisystemic Movements. London: Verso, 1989.
Baudrillard, Jean. Simulacra and Simulation. Trans. Sheila Faria Glaser. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1994.
Berube, Michael. "Teaching Postmodern Fiction Without Being Sure That the Genre Exists." Chronicle of Higher Education 19 May 2000: B4-5.
Coale, Samuel. Paradigms of Paranoia: The Culture of Conspiracy in Contemporary American Fiction. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 2005.
Cornis-Pope, Marcel. Narrative Innovation and Cultural Rewriting in the Cold War and After. New York: Palgrave, 2001.
Davis, Mike. City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles. New York: Vintage, 1992.
______. Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster. New York: Vintage, 1999.
______. Magical Urbanism: Latinos Reinvent the US City. London: Verso, 2001.
Denning, Michael. Culture in the Age of Three Worlds. London: Verso, 2004.
Desmond, Jane C., and Virginia R. Dominguez. "Resituating American Studies in a Critical Internationalism." American Quarterly 48 (Fall 1996): 475-90.
Douglas, Ann. "Periodizing the American Century: Modernism, Postmodernism, and Postcolonialism in the Cold War Context." Modernism/Modernity 5.3 (Sept. 1998): 71-98.
