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.
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1 The Origins of the American Postmodern---Barth, Gass, Barthelme |
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2 The Books That Shaped Directions---Coover, Pynchon, DeLillo, Wallace |
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4 Postmodernism in Generations |
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5 Morrison, Doctorow, Kingston, and Chabon |
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6 The Fusion of Genres in Modernism and Postmodernism |
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7 "9/11" as Insistent Game-Changer |
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8 Postmodern Writers in the Twenty-First Century |
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| Selected Bibliography |
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| Index |
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Linda Wagner-Martin is Frank Borden Hanes Professor of English and Comparative Literature emerita, the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. A former Guggenheim fellow, a senior NEH fellow, and a Rockefeller Institute fellow, she received the Hubbell Medal for Lifetime Achievement in American Literature in 2012. Among her recent books are John Steinbeck: A Literary Life, Maya Angelou: Adventurous Spirit, and Hemingways Wars: The Public and Private Battles.
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