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.
Author(s): Richard Dellamora
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Year: 1995
Language: English
Tags: Apocalypse art, Postmodernism, Arts, Modern-20th century
List of Illustrations
Preface
Introduction
I. Jews, Gentiles, and Fascism
Coitus Interruptus: Fascism and the Deaths of History - Andrew Hewitt
At Last, All the Goyim: Notes on a Greek Word Applied to Jews - Jonathan Boyarin
II. First-Generation Postmodern Apocalyptics
Frye, Derrida, Pynchon, and the Apocalyptic Space of Postmodern Fiction - David Robson
The Whiteness of the Bomb - Ken Cooper
Representing Apocalypse: Sexual Politics and the Violence of Revelation - Mary Wilson Carpenter
Queer Apocalypse: Framing William Burroughs - Richard Dellamora
III. Contemporary Apocalyptics
Can the Apocalypse Be Post? - Teresa Heffernan
Cyborg Economies: Desire and Labor in the 'Terminator' Films - Kevin Pask
The Cyborg Manifesto Revisited: Issues and Methods for Technocultural Feminism - Linda Howell
"Go-go Dancing on the Brink of the Apocalypse": Representing AIDS - Peter Dickinson
O.G. Style: Ice-T/Jacque Derrida - Darren Wershler-Henry
An Absolute Acceleration: Apocalypticism and the War Machines of Waco - Christopher Keep
IV. Coda
'Agrippa', or, The Apocalyptic Book - Peter Schwenger
Contributors
Index
