Description
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, and appreciating postmodern literature since its inception through the present day.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
1 The Origins of the American Postmodern, Barth, Gass, Barthelme
2 The Books that Shaped Directions, Coover, Pynchon, DeLillo, Wallace
3 Other Dominant Authors
4 Postmodernism in Generations
5 Later Generations窶熱orrison, Doctorow, Kingston and Chabon
6 The Fusion of Genres in Twenty-First Century Literature
7 "9/11" as Insistent Game-Changer
8 Postmodern Writers in the Twenty-First Century
Bibliography
Index
