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Postmodern American Fiction A Norton Anthology
Table of Contents
Introduction
Acknowledgments
I. Breaking the Frame
THOMAS PYNCHON (b. 1937)
from The Crying of Lot 49
WILLIAM BURROUGHS (1914-1997)
Nova Express
Crab Nebula
DONALD BARTHELME (1931–1989)
See the Moon?
Sentence
RICHARD BRAUTIGAN (1935–1984)
Trout Fishing in America
The Cover for Trout Fishing in America
Trout Death by Port Wine
NTOZAKE SHANGE (b. 1948)
Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo
Indigo
ISHMAEL REED (b. 1938)
Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down
Chapter 1
WILLIAM GASS (b. 1924)
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country
KURT VONNEGUT (b. 1922)
Breakfast of Champions
Preface
Chapter 1
GRACE PALEY (b. 1922)
The Pale Pink Roast
WALTER ABISH (b. 1931)
Ardor/Awe/Atrocity
CAROLE MASO (b. 1955)
From The American Woman in the Chinese Hat
JAYNE ANNE PHILLIPS (b. 1952)
Bluegill
LYNNE TILLMAN (b. 1947)
Living with Contradictions
II. Fact Meets Fiction
TRUMAN CAPOTE (1924–1984)
From In Cold Blood
NORMAN MAILER (b. 1923)
Armies of the Night
From Part II: Friday Afternoon
AUDRE LORDE (1934–1992)
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
Chapter 4
WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN (b. 1959)
The Rainbow Stories
The Visible Spectrum
A Note on the Truth of the Tales
THERESA HAK KYUNG CHA (1951–1982)
Dictee
Clio History
TIM O’BRIEN (b. 1946)
How to Tell a True War Story
GLORIA ANZALDÚA (b. 1942)
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
Tlilli, Tlapalli: The Path of the Red and Black Ink
III. Popular Culture and High Culture Collide
JAY CANTOR (b. 1948)
Krazy Kat
Our Town
From The Gadget
LYNDA BARRY (b. 1956)
Come Over Come Over
Knowing Things
The Surprise
LAURIE ANDERSON (b. 1947)
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
ROBERT COOVER (b. 1932)
A Night at the Movies
The Phantom of the Movie Palace
MARK LEYNER (b. 1956)
Tooth Imprints on a Corn Dog
The Making of "Tooth Imprints on a Corn Dog"
CURTIS WHITE (b. 1951)
Memories of My Father Watching T.V.
Combat
RICARDO CORTEZ CRUZ (b. 1964)
Premature Autopsies
Welcome to the Ghetto
BOBBIE ANN MASON (b. 1940)
Shiloh
BARRY GIFFORD (b. 1946)
Wild at Heart
Wild at Heart
Hunger in America
Locus Ceruleus
IV. Revisiting History
ART SPIEGELMAN (b. 1948)
From Maus
TONI MORRISON (b. 1931)
From Beloved
PHILLIP ROTH (b. 1933)
The Ghost Writer
Femme Fatale
LESLIE MARMON SILKO (b. 1948)
From Ceremony
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E. L. DOCTOROW (b. 1931)
The Leather Man
SUSAN DAITCH (b. 1954)
X Y
SHERMAN ALEXIE (b. 1966)
Captivity
JOSEPH HELLER (b. 1923)
Catch-22
Chapter 9. Major Major Major Major
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE (b. 1962)
Lyndon
V. Revising Genre
JOYCE CAROL OATES (b. 1938)
The Turn of the Screw
KATHY ACKER (1944-1997)
Great Expectations
I Recall My Childhood
JOHN BARTH (b. 1930)
Chimera
Dunyazadiad
PAUL AUSTER (b. 1947)
City of Glass
Chapter 1
PAUL KARASIK (b. 1956) AND DAVID MAZZUCCHELLI (b.1960)
From Paul Auster’s CITY OF GLASS
MAXINE HONG KINGSTON (b. 1940)
Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book
From Trippers and Askers
SAMUEL R. DELANY (b. 1942)
Neveryóna
1. Of Dragons, Mountains, Transhumance, Sequence, and Sunken Cities, or: The Violence of the Letter
ROSARIO FERRÉ (b. 1942)
The Youngest Doll
MARILYNNE ROBINSON (b. 1944)
Housekeeping
From Chapter 8
HELEN MARÍA VIRAMONTES (b. 1954)
The Cariboo Cafe
VI. Technoculture
WILLIAM GIBSON (b. 1948)
The Gernsback Continuum
URSULA K. LE GUIN (b. 1929)
Schrödinger’s Cat
She Unnames Them
DON DELILLO (b. 1936)
White Noise
Chapter 7
Chapter 9
Chapter 17
JOANNA RUSS (b. 1937)
The Female Man
Part One
GERALD VIZENOR (b. 1934)
Feral Lasers
OCTAVIA BUTLER (b. 1947)
Imago
Chapter 1
NEAL STEPHENSON (b. 1959)
Snow Crash
Chapter 1
DOUGLAS COUPLAND (b. 1961)
Generation X
Shopping Is Not Creating
J. YELLOWLEES DOUGLAS (b. 1962)
From I Have Said Nothing
MICHAEL JOYCE (b. 1945)
From afternoon, a story
VII. A Casebook of Postmodern Theory
HÉLÈNE CIXOUS (b. 1937)
From Sorties: Out and Out: Attacks/ Ways Out/ Forays
IHAB HASSAN (b. 1925)
Toward a Concept of Postmodernism
MICHAEL BÉRUBÉ (b. 1961)
Public Access
From Just the Fax, Ma’am: Or, Postmodernism’s Journey to Decenter
DONNA HARAWAY (b. 1944)
From A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century
UMBERTO ECO (b. 1932)
Postscript to The Name of the Rose
From Postmodernism, Irony, the Enjoyable
Bell Hooks (b. 1955)
Postmodern Blackness
JEAN BAUDRILLARD (b. 1929)
Simulacra and Simulation
From The Precession of Simulacra
TERRY HARPOLD (b. 1959)
Conclusions
TRINH T. MINH-HA (b. 1952)
From Woman, Native, Other
FREDRIC JAMESON (b. 1934)
From Postmodernism and Consumer Society
Permissions Acknowledgments
Index
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