Postmodern American Fiction: A Norton Anthology (1995)





New York City: W. W. Norton (book, anthology, 1st), 1995.
9.25" x 5.75" x 1.25", 672 pages, softcover.

Postmodern American Fiction: A Norton Anthology, edited by Paula Geyh, Fred G. Leebron, and Andrew Levy, published by W. W. Norton (New York City) in 1995.

A short bio of William S. Burroughs is at page 15, followed by some excerpts from Nova Express, pp.15-25.

Not in Shoaf.

Contents:

  • Introduction
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part I: Breaking the Frame:
    • Thomas Pynchon: from The Crying of Lot 49
    • William S. Burroughs: from Nova Express
    • Donald Barthelme: from Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts and also City Life
    • Richard Brautigan: from Trout Fishing in America
    • Ntozake Shange: from Sassfrass, Cypress & Indigo
    • Ishmael Reed: from Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down
    • William Gass: from In the Heart of the Heart of the Country
    • Kurt Vonnegut: from breakfast of Champions
    • Gracy Paley: from The Little Disturbances of Man
    • Walter Abish: from In the Future Perfect
    • Carole Maso: from The American Woman in the Chinese Hat
    • Jayne Anne Phillips: "Bluegill" from Fast Lanes
    • Lynne Tillman: from Living with Contradictions
  • Part II: Fact Meets Fiction:
    • Truman Capote: from In Cold Blood
    • Norman Mailer: from The Armies of the Night
    • Audre Lorde: from Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
    • William T. Vollman: from The Rainbow Stories
    • Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: from Dictee
    • Tim O'Brien: from The Things They Carried
    • Gloria Anzaldúa: from Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
  • Part III: Popular Culture and High Culture Collide:
    • Jay Kantor: from Krazy Kat
    • Lynda Barry: from Come Over Come Over
    • Laurie Anderson: from Stories from the Nerve Bible
    • Robert Coover: from A Night at the Movies
    • Mark Leyner: from Tooth Imprints on a Corn Dog
    • Curtis White: from Memories of My Father Watching T.V.
    • Ricardo Cortez Cruz: from Premature Autopsies
    • Bobbie Ann Mason: from Shiloh and Other Stories
    • Barry Gifford: from Wild at Heart
  • Part IV: Revisiting History:
    • Art Spiegelman: from Maus
    • Toni Morrison: from Beloved
    • Philip Roth: from The Ghost Writer
    • Leslie Marmon Silko: from Ceremony
    • E. L. Doctorow: from Lives of the Poets
    • Susan Daitch: from Storytown
    • Sherman Alexie: from First Indian On the Moon
    • Joseph Heller: from Catch-22
    • David Foster Wallace: from Girl with Curious Hair
  • Part V: Revisiting Tradition:
    • Joyce Carol Oates: from Marriages and Infidelities
    • Kathy Acker: from Great Expectations
    • John Barth: from Chimera
    • Paul Auster: from City of Glass
    • Paul Karasik and David Mazzucchelli: from Paul Auster's CITY OF GLASS
    • Maxine Hong Kingston: from Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book
    • Samuel R. Delany: from Neveryóna
    • Rosario Ferré: from The Youngest Doll
    • Marilynne Robinson: from Housekeeping
    • Helena María Viramontes: "The Cariboo Cafe"
  • Part VI: Technoculture:
    • William Gibson: from Burning Chrome
    • Ursula K. Le Guin: from Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences
    • Don Delillo: from White Noise
    • Joanna Russ: from The Female Man
    • Gerald Vizenor: from Landfill Meditations
    • Octavia Butler: from Imago
    • Neal Stephenson: from Snow Crash
    • Douglas Coupland: from Generation X
    • J. Yellowlees Douglas: from I Have Said Nothing
    • Michael Joyce: from afternoon, a story
  • Part VII: A Casebook of Postmodern Theory:
    • Hélène Cixous: from Sorties: Out and Out: Attacks/Ways Out/Forays
    • Ihab Hassan: "Towards a Concept of Postmodernism"
    • Michael Bérubé: from Public Access
    • Donna Haraway: from A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century
    • Umberto Eco: from Postscript to The Name of the Rose
    • Bell Hooks: "Postmodern Blackness"
    • Jean Baudrillard: from Simulacra and Simulation
    • Terry Harpold: "Conclusions"
    • Trinh T. Minh-Ha: from Woman, Native, Other
    • Fredric Jameson: from Postmodernism and Consumer Society

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