Postmodern American Fiction: A Norton Anthology

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

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ISBN: 9780393316988 | 039331698X
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Copyright: 9/17/1997

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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.

Introduction

(22)

Acknowledgments

xxxi

I Breaking the Frame

(124)

THOMAS PYNCHON (b. 1937)

(11)

FROM The Crying of Lot 49

(11)

WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS (b. 1914)

(10)

Nova Express

(10)

Crab Nebula

(10)

DONALD BARTHELME (1931-1989)

(12)

See the Moon?

(7)

Sentence

(4)

RICHARD BRAUTIGAN (1935-1984)

(5)

Trout Fishing in America

(4)

The Cover for Trout Fishing in America

(1)

Trout Death by Port Wine

(2)

NTOZAKE SHANGE (b. 1948)

(13)

Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo

(12)

Indigo

(12)

ISHMAEL REED (b. 1938)

(10)

Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down

(10)

Chapter 1

(10)

WILLIAM GASS (b. 1924)

(19)

In the Heart of the Heart of the Country

(18)

KURT VONNEGUT (b. 1922)

(10)

Breakfast of Champions

(9)

Preface

(3)

Chapter 1

(6)

GRACE PALEY (b. 1922)

(5)

The Pale Pink Roast

(5)

WALTER ABISH (b. 1931)

(12)

Ardor/Awe/Atrocity

(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

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