..., and the relation of Buddhism to modernity—that 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...

...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...

... and third-wave feminisms in the 1990s, high postmodernist novels of the 1970s remain particularly fraught among contemporary feminist scholars, who often critique postmodern novelists’ unapologetic investment in virile masculinity and exclusionary discourses. 1 A queerer and more sex–positive...

...David H. Evans On Endings: American Postmodern Fiction and the Cold War Novels of Exile and Alternate Worlds , by Grausam Daniel , Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press , 2011 . 196 pages. 2012 David H. Evans Is Postmodern Fiction da Bomb? On Endings: American...

...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...

... 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 atypical of DeLillo’s larger career. For the most part, she argues, his work is...

... can I be in realizing on them?” Like the failings o f the hero of 310 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...

... 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...

... War postmodern novel nuclear war “I’m caught in it,” Thomas Pynchon wrote to his friend Kirkpatrick Sale on May 28, 1962, referring to Seattle. “It’s killing me. [. . .] I’m losing my mind” (“Letter” 1962). 1 In this letter Pynchon lays much of the blame on the Seattle World’s Fair, then in...

... McCann and Szalay’s view, much of postmodern literature embodies these confused cultural values, and they argue elsewhere that, even if Vineland is “the most politically incisive of his novels,” it still provides “a model of sentimental community that reflects . . . impatience with political complexity...

... 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 taken as a transitional text—the...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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 234 Introduction: After Postmodernism acutely concerned w ith the waning o f modernism, w hich like postmod­ ernism today had...

... 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...

...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...

... 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...