The Cambridge companion to postmodern American fiction / edited by Paula Geyh.
"Few previous periods in the history of American literature could rival the richness of the postmodern era - the diversity of its authors, the complexity of its ideas and visions, and the multiplicity of its subjects and forms. This volume offers an authoritative, comprehensive, and accessible...
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA :
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2017.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Paula Geyh
- 1. Postmodern precursors / Jonathan P. Eburne
- 2. Prolonged periodization: American fiction after 1960 / David Cowart
- 3. Postmodern American fiction and global literature / Caren Irr
- 4. Philosophical skepticism and narrative incredulity: postmodern theory and postmodern American fiction / Arkady Plotnitsky
- 5. History and fiction / Timothy Parrish
- 6. Gender and sexuality: postmodern constructions / Sally Robinson
- 7. Pluralism and postmodernism: the histories and geographies of ethnic American literature / Dean Franco
- 8. The zombie in the mirror: postmodernism and subjectivity in science fiction / Elana Gomel
- 9. Postmodern styles: language, reflexivity, and pastiche / Patrick O'Donnell
- 10. Between word and image: the textual and the visual in postmodern American fiction / Paula Geyh
- 11. Electronic fictions: television, the internet, and the future of digital fiction / Astrid Ensslin.