| Description |
xxxi, 672 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
From Sorties : out and out : attacks/ways out/forays / Hélène Cixous (b. 1937) -- Toward a concept of postmodernism / Ihab Hassan (b. 1925) -- Public access (From Just the fax, ma'am : or, postmodernism's journey to Decenter) / Michael Bérubé (b. 1961) -- From A cyborg manifesto : science, technology, and socialist-feminism in the late twentieth century / Donna Haraway (b. 1944) -- Postscript to The name of the rose (From Postmodernism, irony, the enjoyable) / Umberto Eco (b. 1932) -- Postmodern blackness / Bell Hooks (b. 1955) -- Simulacra and simulation (From The precession of Simulacra) / Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929) -- Conclusions / Terry Harpold (b. 1959) -- From Woman, native, other / Trinh T. Minh-ha (b. 1952) -- From Postmodernism and consumer society / Fredric Jameson (b. 1934) |
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From The crying of lot 49 / Thomas Pynchon (b. 1937) -- Nova express (Crab nebula) / William S. Burroughs (b. 1914) -- See the moon? Sentence / Donald Barthelme (1931-1989) -- Trout fishing in America (The cover for trout fishing in America Trout death by port wine) / Richard Brautigan (1935-1984) -- Sassafrass, cypress & indigo / Ntozake Shange / (b.1948) -- Yellow back radio broke-down (Chapter 1) / Ishmael Reed (b. 1938) -- In the heart of the heart of the country / William Gass (b. 1924) -- Breakfast of champions (Preface Chapter 1) / Kurt Vonnegut (b. 1922) -- The pale pink roast / Grace Paley (b. 1922) -- Ardor/awe/atrocity / Walter Abish (b. 1931) -- From The American woman in the Chinese hat -- Carole Maso (b. 1955) -- Bluegill / Jayne Anne Phillips (b. 1952) -- Living with contradictions / Lynne Tillman (b. 1947) -- From In cold blood / Truman Capote (1924-1984) -- The armies of the night (From part II : Friday afternoon) / Norman Mailler (b. 1923) -- Zami : a new spelling of my name (Chapter 4) / Audre Lorde (1934-1992) -- The rainbow stories (The visible spectrum A note on the truth of the tales) / William T. Vollmann (b. 1959) -- Dictee (Clio, History) / Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1951-1982) -- How to tell a true war story / Tim O'Brien (b. 1946) -- Borderlands/la frontera : the new mestiza (Tlilli, tlapalli : the path of the red and black ink) / Gloria Anzakdúa (b. 1942) |
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Krazy Kat (Our town From The gadget) / Jay Cantor (b. 1948) -- Come over come over (Knowing things The surprise) / Lynda Barry (b. 1956) -- Stories from the nerve bible (12. Maps and places 15. Black fire on white fire 24. Talkshow 48. Stories from the nerve bible 49. This storm) / Laurie Anderson (b. 1947) -- A night at the movies (The phantom of the movie palace) / Robert Coover (b. 1923) -- Tooth imprints on a corn dog (The making of Tooth imprints on a corn dog) / Mark Leyner (b. 1956) -- Memories of my father watching t. v. (Combat) / Curtis White (b. 1951) -- Premature autopsies (Welcome to the ghetto) / Ricardo Cortez Cruz (b. 1964) -- Shiloh / Bobbie Ann Mason (b. 1940) -- Wild at heart (Wild at heart Hunger in America Locus Ceruleus) / Barry Gifford (b. 1946) -- From Maus / Art Spiegelman (b. 1948) -- From Beloved / Toni Morrison (b. 1931) -- The ghost writer (Femme fatale) / Philip Roth (b. 1933) -- From Ceremony / Leslie Marmon Silko (b. 1948) -- The leather man / E.L. Doctorow (b. 1931) -- X [not equal to] y / Susan Daitch (b. 1954) -- Captivity / Sherman Alexie (b. 1966) -- Catch-22 (Chapter 9. Major Major Major Major) / Joseph Heller (b. 1923) -- Lyndon / David Foster Wallace (b. 1962) |
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The turn of the screw / Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938) -- Great expectations (I recall my childhood) / Kathy Acker (b. 1948) -- Chimera (Dunyazadiad) / John Barth (b. 1930) -- City of glass (Chapter 1) / Paul Auster (b. 1947) -- From Paul Auster's City of glass / Paul Karasisk (b. 1956) and / David Mazzucchelli (b. 1960) -- Tripmaster monkey : his fake book (From Trippers and askers) / Maxine Hong Kingston (b. 1940) -- Neveryóna (1. Of dragons, mountains, transhumance, sequence, and sunken cities, or : the violence of the letter) / Samuel R. Delany (b. 1942) -- The youngest doll / Rosario Ferré (b. 1942) -- Housekeeping (From chapter 8) / Marilynne Robinson (b. 1944) -- The Cariboo Cafe / Helena María Viramontes (b. 1954) -- The Gernsback continuum / William Gibson (b. 1948) -- Schrödinger's cat She unnames them / Ursula K. Le Guin (b. 1929) -- White noise (Chapter 7 ; Chapter 9 ; Chapter 17) / Don Delillo (b. 1936) -- The female man (Part one) / Joanna Russ (b. 1937) -- Feral lasers / Gerald Vizenor (b. 1934) -- Imago (Chapter 1) / Octavia Butler (b. 1947) -- Snow crash (Chapter 1) / Neal Stephenson (b. 1959) -- Generation X (Shopping is not creating) / Douglas Coupland (b. 1961) -- From I have said nothing / J. Yellowlees Douglas (b. 1962) -- From Afternoon, a story / Michael Joyce (b. 1945) |
| Summary |
Excerpts from novels by writers, giving their comments on what they wanted to achieve. For example, in How to Tell a True War Story, a novel on the horror and grandeur of war, Tim O'Brien sought "to arrive at some kind of spiritual truth that one can't discover simply by recording the world-as-it-is." |
| Analysis |
American fiction -- 20th century |
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Postmodernism (Literature) -- United States |
| Notes |
Chiefly short stories and excerpts from novels |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
American fiction -- 20th century.
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Postmodernism (Literature) -- United States.
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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| Author |
Geyh, Paula, editor
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Leebron, Fred, editor
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Levy, Andrew, 1962- editor
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| LC no. |
97024446 |
| ISBN |
039331698X |
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9780393316988 |
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