Postmodern American Fiction: A Norton Anthology

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Author: Paula Geyh

ISBN-10: 039331698X

ISBN-13: 9780393316988

Category: American Literature Anthologies

It includes works by sixty-eight authors: short fiction, novels, cartoons, graphics,\ hypertexts, creative nonfiction, and theoretical writings. This is the first anthology to do full justice to the vast range of American innovation in fiction writing since 1945.

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From William S. Burroughs to David Foster Wallace, Postmodern American Fiction offers up witty, risky, exhilarating, groundbreaking fiction from five decades of postwar American life.

IntroductionAcknowledgments4from The Crying of Lot 49415Nova Express1525See the Moon?26Sentence3337Trout Fishing in America3842Sassafrass, Cypress and Indigo4355Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down5565In the Heart of the Heart of the Country6684Breakfast of Champions8594The Pale Pink Roast9499Ardor/Awe/Atrocity99111from The American Woman in the Chinese Hat111115Bluegill116120Living with Contradictions121127from In Cold Blood127141The Armies of the Night141146Zami: A New Spelling of My Name146152The Rainbow Stories153161Dictee161174How to Tell a True War Story174183Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza184196Krazy Kat197211Come Over Come Over212216Stories from the Nerve Bible216226A Night at the Movies226241Tooth Imprints on a Corn Dog242255Memories of My Father Watching T.V.256263Premature Autopsies264271Shiloh271281Wild at Heart282294from Maus295301from Beloved301306The Ghost Writer307321from Ceremony322331The Leather Man332338[actual symbol not reproducible]338341Captivity342345Catch-22345362Lyndon362396The Turn of the Screw396409Great Expectations409415Chimera416443City of Glass443449from Paul Auster's City of Glass450458Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book458470Neveryona470484The Youngest Doll485488Housekeeping489497The Cariboo Cafe497512The Gernsback Continuum512519Schrodinger's Cat520She Unnames Them525526White Noise527537The Female Man537548Feral Lasers548554Imago555561Snow Crash561568Generation X568573from I Have Said Nothing574576from afternoon, a story577583from Stories: Out and Out: Attacks/Ways Out/Forays583585Toward a Concept of Postmodernism586595Public Access595603from A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century603622Postscript to The Name of the Rose622624Postmodern Blackness624631Simulacra and Simulation631637Conclusions637649from Woman, Native, Other649654from Postmodernism and Consumer Society654Permissions Acknowledgments665Index671