The origins of the American postmodern- Barth, Gass, Barthelme -- The books that shaped directions- Coover, Pynchon, DeLillo, Wallace -- Other dominant authors -- Postmodernism in generations -- Morrison, Doctorow, Kingston, and Chabon -- The fusion of genres in modernism and postmodernism -- "9/11" as insistent game-changer -- Postmodern writers in the twenty-first century.
Summary:
"The Routledge Introduction to American Postmodernism offers readers a fresh, insightful overview to all genres of postmodern writing. Drawing on a variety of works from not only mainstream authors but also those that are arguably unconventional, renowned scholar Linda Wagner-Martin gives the reader a solid framework and foundation to reading, understanding,a nd appreciating postmodern literature since its inception through the present day."-- book cover
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