Contents
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- NeveryŪna
- 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)
- Schrdinger’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
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