Postmodern American Fiction: A Norton Anthology

by Geyh, Paula; Leebron, Fred G.; Levy, Andrew

• ISBN13: 9780393316988
• ISBN10: 039331698X
• Edition: 00
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-09-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

It includes works bysixty-eight authors: short fiction, novels, cartoons, graphics,hypertexts, creative nonfiction, and theoretical writings. This is thefirst anthology to do full justice to the vast range of Americaninnovation in fiction writing since 1945.

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix	(22)
Acknowledgments	xxxi
I Breaking the Frame	1	(124)
THOMAS PYNCHON (b. 1937)	4	(11)
FROM The Crying of Lot 49	4	(11)
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS (b. 1914)	15	(10)
Nova Express	15	(10)
Crab Nebula	15	(10)
DONALD BARTHELME (1931-1989)	25	(12)
See the Moon?	26	(7)
Sentence	33	(4)
RICHARD BRAUTIGAN (1935-1984)	37	(5)
Trout Fishing in America	38	(4)
The Cover for Trout Fishing in America	39	(1)
Trout Death by Port Wine	40	(2)
NTOZAKE SHANGE (b. 1948)	42	(13)
Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo	43	(12)
Indigo	43	(12)
ISHMAEL REED (b. 1938)	55	(10)
Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down	55	(10)
Chapter 1	55	(10)
WILLIAM GASS (b. 1924)	65	(19)
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country	66	(18)
KURT VONNEGUT (b. 1922)	84	(10)
Breakfast of Champions	85	(9)
Preface	85	(3)
Chapter 1	88	(6)
GRACE PALEY (b. 1922)	94	(5)
The Pale Pink Roast	94	(5)
WALTER ABISH (b. 1931)	99	(12)
Ardor/Awe/Atrocity	99	(12)
CAROLE MASO (b. 1955)	111	(4)
FROM The American Woman in the Chinese Hat	111	(4)
JAYNE ANNE PHILLIPS (b. 1952)	115	(5)
Bluegill	116	(4)
LYNNE TILLMAN (b. 1947)	120	(5)
Living with Contradictions	121	(4)
II Fact Meets Fiction	125	(68)
TRUMAN CAPOTE (1924-1984)	127	(14)
FROM In Cold Blood	127	(14)
NORMAN MAILER (b. 1923)	141	(5)
The Armies of the Night	141	(5)
FROM Part II: Friday Afternoon	141	(5)
AUDRE LORDE (1934-1992)	146	(6)
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name	146	(6)
Chapter 4	146	(6)
WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN (b. 1959)	152	(9)
The Rainbow Stories	153	(8)
The Visible Spectrum	153	(7)
A Note on the Truth of the Tales	160	(1)
THERESA HAK KYUNG CHA (1951-1982)	161	(13)
Dictee	161	(13)
Clio History	161	(13)
TIM O'BRIEN (b. 1946)	174	(9)
How to Tell a True War Story	174	(9)
GLORIA ANZALDUA (b. 1942)	183	(10)
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza	184	(9)
Tlilli, Tlapalli: The Path of the Red and Black Ink	184	(9)
III Popular Culture and High Culture Collide	193	(98)
JAY CANTOR (b. 1948)	196	(5)
Krazy Kat	197	(4)
Our Town	197	(1)
FROM The Gadget	198	(3)
LYNDA BARRY (b. 1956)	211	(5)
Come Over Come Over	212	(4)
Knowing Things	212	(2)
The Surprise	214	(2)
LAURIE ANDERSON (b. 1947)	216	(10)
Stories from the Nerve Bible	216	(10)
12. Maps and Places	216	(2)
15. Black Fire on White Fire	218	(4)
24. Talkshow	222	(1)
48. Stories from the Nerve Bible	223	(2)
49. This Storm	225	(1)
ROBERT COOVER (b. 1932)	226	(15)
A Night at the Movies	226	(15)
The Phantom of the Movie Palace	226	(15)
MARK LEYNER (b. 1956)	241	(14)
Tooth Imprints on a Corn Dog	242	(13)
The Making of "Tooth Imprints on a Corn Dog"	242	(13)
CURTIS WHITE (b. 1951)	255	(8)
Memories of My Father Watching T.V.	256	(7)
Combat	256	(7)
RICARDO CORTEZ CRUZ (b. 1964)	263	(8)
Premature Autopsies	264	(7)
Welcome to the Ghetto	264	(7)
BOBBIE ANN MASON (b. 1940)	271	(10)
Shiloh	271	(10)
BARRY GIFFORD (b. 1946)	281	(10)
Wild at Heart	282	(9)
Wild at Heart	282	(2)
Hunger in America	284	(2)
Locus Ceruleus	286	(5)
IV Revisiting History	291	(102)
ART SPIEGELMAN (b. 1948)	294	(7)
FROM Maus	295	(6)
TONI MORRISON (b. 1931)	301	(5)
FROM Beloved	301	(5)
PHILIP ROTH (b. 1933)	306	(16)
The Ghost Writer	307	(14)
Femme Fatale	307	(14)
LESLIE MARMON SILKO (b. 1948)	321	(10)
FROM Ceremony	322	(9)
E. L. DOCTOROW (b. 1931)	331	(7)
The Leather Man	332	(6)
SUSAN DAITCH (b. 1954)	338	(3)
XXXXY	338	(3)
SHERMAN ALEXIE (b. 1966)	341	(4)
Captivity	342	(3)
JOSEPH HELLER (b. 1923)	345	(17)
Catch-22	345	(17)
Chapter 9. Major Major Major Major	345	(17)
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE (b. 1962)	362	(31)
Lyndon	362	(31)
V Revising Tradition	393	(116)
JOYCE CAROL OATES (b. 1938)	396	(13)
The Turn of the Screw	396	(13)
KATHY ACKER (b. 1948)	409	(6)
Great Expectations	409	(1)
I Recall My Childhood	409	(6)
JOHN BARTH (b. 1930)	415	(28)
Chimera	416	(27)
Dunyazadiad	416	(27)
PAUL AUSTER (b. 1947)	443	(6)
City of Glass	443	(6)
Chapter 1	443	(6)
PAUL KARASIK (b. 1956) AND DAVID MAZZUCCHELLI (b. 1960)	449	(9)
FROM Paul Auster's CITY OF GLASS	450	(8)
MAXINE HONG KINGSTON (b. 1940)	458	(12)
Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book	458	(12)
FROM Trippers and Askers	458	(12)
SAMUEL R. DELANY (b. 1942)	470	(14)
Neveryona	470	(14)
1. Of Dragons, Mountains, Transhumance, Sequence, and Sunken Cities, or: The Violence of the Letter	470	(14)
ROSARIO FERRE (b. 1942)	484	(4)
The Youngest Doll	485	(3)
MARILYNNE ROBINSON (b. 1944)	488	(9)
Housekeeping	489	(8)
FROM Chapter 8	489	(8)
HELENA MARIA VIRAMONTES (b. 1954)	497	(12)
The Cariboo Cafe	497	(12)
VI Technoculture [Electronic selections for entries marked are available at the Norton Website: http://www.wwnorton.com]	509	(72)
WILLIAM GIBSON (b. 1948)	512	(7)
The Gernsback Continuum	512	(7)
URSULA K. LE GUIN (b. 1929)	519	(7)
Schrodinger's Cat	520	(5)
She Unnames Them	525	(1)
DON DELILLO (b. 1936)	526	(11)
White Noise	527	(11)
Chapter 7	527	(2)
Chapter 9	529	(4)
Chapter 17	533	(4)
JOANNA RUSS (b. 1937)	537	(11)
The Female Man	537	(11)
Part One	537	(11)
GERALD VIZENOR (b. 1934)	548	(6)
Feral Lasers	548	(6)
OCTAVIA BUTLER (b. 1947)	554	(7)
Imago	555	(6)
Chapter 1	555	(6)
NEAL STEPHENSON (b. 1959)	561	(7)
Snow Crash	561	(7)
Chapter 1	561	(7)
DOUGLAS COUPLAND (b. 1961)	568	(5)
Generation X	568	(5)
Shopping Is Not Creating	568	(5)
J. YELLOWLEES DOUGLAS (b. 1962)	573	(3)
FROM I Have Said Nothing	574	(2)
MICHAEL JOYCE (b. 1945)	576	(5)
FROM afternoon, a story	577	(4)
VII A Casebook of Postmodern Theory	581	(73)
HELENE CIXOUS (b. 1937)	583	(2)
FROM Sorties: Out and Out: Attacks/Ways Out/Forays	583	(2)
IHAB HASSAN (b. 1925)	585	(10)
Toward a Concept of Postmodernism	586	(9)
MICHAEL BERUBE (b. 1961)	595	(8)
Public Access	595	(8)
FROM Just the Fax, Ma'am: Or, Postmodernism's Journey to Decenter	595	(8)
DONNA HARAWAY (b. 1944)	603	(19)
FROM A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century	603	(19)
UMBERTO ECO (b. 1932)	622	(2)
Postscript to The Name of the Rose	622	(2)
FROM Postmodernism, Irony, the Enjoyable	622	(2)
BELL HOOKS (b. 1955)	624	(7)
Postmodern Blackness	624	(7)
JEAN BAUDRILLARD (b. 1929)	631	(6)
Simulacra and Simulation	631	(6)
FROM The Precession of Simulacra	631	(6)
TERRY HARPOLD (b. 1959)	637	(12)
Conclusions	637	(12)
TRINH T. MINH-HA (b. 1952)	649	(5)
FROM Woman, Native, Other	649	(5)
FREDRIC JAMESON (b. 1934)	654	(11)
FROM Postmodernism and Consumer Society	654	(11)
Permissions Acknowledgments	665	(6)
Index	671