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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (1): 32–55.
Published: 01 March 2016
... parallel in provocative ways those at the center of Buddhist studies today. By considering his novel, its criticism, and contemporary Buddhist studies together, we can better understand the historicity of intercultural exchange in postmodern literature, as well as the complexity of Sarduy’s own engagement...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (3-4): 516–538.
Published: 01 December 2011
...Caren Irr 2011 Caren Irr
Postmodernism in Reverse: American National
Allegories and the 21st-Century Political Novel
Caren Irr
Since the 1980s, the conceptual twin—or, better, dialectical counter-
part—of literary postmodernism has been the national allegory. As Fred-
ric...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (2): 141–166.
Published: 01 June 2017
... a queer postmodernist text within a text, Margherita is the point on which much of the novel’s postmodern narrative converges. Significantly both instances of metalepsis cited by McHale are directly linked to Margherita’s s/m practice, a practice that also violates narrative levels. Margherita’s...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (3): 540–545.
Published: 01 September 2012
...David H. Evans David H. Evans
Is Postmodern Fiction da Bomb?
On Endings: American Postmodern Fiction and the Cold War
Novels of Exile and Alternate Worlds
by Daniel Grausam
Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2011. 196 pages
David H. Evans
One might summarize the argument...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (3-4): 364–371.
Published: 01 December 2011
...Madhu Dubey 2011 Madhu Dubey
Post-Postmodern Realism?
Madhu Dubey
In his 1989 manifesto for “the new social novel,” Tom Wolfe com-
plained that contemporary American novelists were failing to take on the
pressing social issues of their time. Since the 1960s—in other words...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (1): 159–168.
Published: 01 March 2012
... my mind, correct—because it suggests
that for too long DeLillo’s work has been conflated with the textbook
postmodernism of White Noise (1985). While White Noise is no doubt an
achievement, and handy for American novel surveys or postmodernism
courses, Hungerford rightly suggests that it is...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2007) 53 (3): 298–326.
Published: 01 September 2007
... can I be in realizing on them?” Like the failings o f the hero of
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Roth, DeLillo, Banks, Peck, and the Postmodern Aesthetics of Vocation
T im O ’B rien’s contemporaneous novel Going After Cacciato, the initial
inadequacy o f James Axton can be described best not as...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (1): 120–127.
Published: 01 March 2018
... Fowles, and the “cerebral genre novels” of Paul Auster, Don DeLillo, Margaret Atwood, and Umberto Eco. The third threshold of postmodernism, the “interregnum” (65), occurs in 1989–90 with the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the incipient dissolution of the Soviet Union. Whether this phase marks a “late...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (2): 145–169.
Published: 01 June 2016
... , demonstrating Pynchon’s nearly career-long fascination with the event. Copyright © Hofstra University 2016 Thomas Pynchon Cold War postmodern novel nuclear war 6 In fact, an entire collection of essays on Pynchon as California writer, edited by Scott McClintock and Miller, was published by the...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (1): 1–31.
Published: 01 March 2016
... Progressive Labor Party. Speaking to contemporary leftists, the novel concludes that decentralist and grassroots anarchist politics can mediate between the New Left’s entropy and the Old Left’s hierarchy. Copyright © Hofstra University 2016 Paul Goodman Murray Bookchin postmodernism radicalism...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (3): 289–308.
Published: 01 September 2016
... of an open and shifting subjectivity that align themselves more closely with contextualized and dynamic models of agency and creativity. Though the two novels offered as case studies of a postmodern poetics can hardly be seen as definitive representatives of the genre—particularly if Broken is...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (3): 416–422.
Published: 01 September 2009
... claim that the postmodern novel
is unable to represent reality: the novel has always questioned its ability
to represent reality, and it has always grappled with the kinds of questions
about belief, identity, and nation that Cohen’s book engages. This, Cohen
argues, “calls into question the...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (3-4): 391–422.
Published: 01 December 2011
... which takes
a determinedly revisionist and historicist perspective on many of the ca-
nonical postmodernist texts to which she alludes. Novels such as Thomas
Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49 (1966) and Don DeLillo’s White Noise
(1985), now monuments in the American postmodern landscape, have...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (3-4): 291–308.
Published: 01 December 2011
... form rather than content. In Barth’s essay,
metafiction signals a revitalization of the novel as the novelist is able to
examine the text’s own status as an object in the world: “A novel is as
much a piece of the real world as a letter” (145). Accordingly, for Barth
and Sontag, postmodernism...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2007) 53 (3): 248–272.
Published: 01 September 2007
... its themes— the human and
environmental consequences o f transformations taking place at America’s
borders— as belonging to their ow n contem porary m om ent. W hile
these structural and thematic concerns may seem quite postmodern,
Yamashita’s novel situates them in relation to...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (3-4): 423–446.
Published: 01 December 2011
... Powers who demonstrate a clear conceptual and formal inheritance
from postmodernism and who, as I will show through a reading of one
of Powers’s recent novels, The Echo Maker (2006), produce realist nar-
ratives in part to demonstrate their artificiality and fragility. Reading
works like The...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2007) 53 (3): 233–247.
Published: 01 September 2007
... alternative to
modernism. As the essays that Marcus Klein collects in his 1969 volume
The American Novel Since World War II suggest, critics in this period were
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Introduction: After Postmodernism
acutely concerned w ith the waning o f modernism, w hich like postmod
ernism today had...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (3-4): 472–491.
Published: 01 December 2011
... article, then,
at the moment of your touch, how this commodity came into your hands
becomes plainly evident to you” (216). This solution, then, will not only
allow Dwight to “feel” history in a strangely literal sense, but also alerts
us to the novel’s marked interest in a distinctly postmodern...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2007) 53 (3): 345–370.
Published: 01 September 2007
...Min Hyoung Song Copyright © Hofstra University 2007 w
The Children of 1965:
Allegory, Postmodernism, and
Jhumpa Lahiri’s T h e N am esake
M in H young Song
J h u m p a Lahiri was already a celebrated author w hen her first novel ap
peared in print. H er short...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (3-4): 354–363.
Published: 01 December 2011
... a shift I can also track in my own work, which is about a subject
many take as transparently “postmodern”—comics. (The form of com-
ics is, broadly speaking, obviously relevant to postmodernism in that it
is, unlike, say, the novel, itself an approximately twentieth-century form,
and an...