The Fiction of Postmodernity

The Fiction of Postmodernity is a significant and accessible study of the relation of postmodern fiction to theories of the postmodern. Contemporary works of fiction by novelists such as Don DeLillo, Toni Morrison, Salman Rushdie, Thomas Pynchon, and Martin Amis are viewed in relation to critiques of the culture industry, analyses of the postmodern condition and theories of simulacra.

Stephen Baker is Senior Lecturer in English at South Bank University, London.

Acknowledgements

vii

Introduction

1

(11)

The Broken Promise: Ideology and the Ageing of the New

12

(50)

Georg Lukacs and the Reification of Consciousness

13

(5)

Lukacs and the Novel

18

(2)

Realism, Modernism, Totality and Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury

20

(7)

Caddy and Faulkner's promesse du bonheur in The Sound and the Fury

27

(4)

Adorno and the Culture Industry

31

(5)

John Dos Passos' USA

36

(6)

Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus

42

(5)

Postmodernism and the Avant-Garde

47

(5)

Jameson's Postmodernism

52

(10)

Postmodern Reflections: Thinking after Marxism

62

(61)

Jean-Francois Lyotard and the Problem with Grand Narratives

65

(3)

Lyotard, Postmodernism and the Sublime

68

(1)

Unimaginable Guilt: Toni Morrison's Beloved

69

(10)

Jean Baudrillard: Ideology and Simulacra

79

(2)

`Now More Than Ever': Death and Cultural Consumption in Don DeLillo

81

(42)

A Portrait of the Postmodern: Goods and Simulacra

83

(8)

Postmodern Forms: Pastiche and Electronic Reproduction

91

(8)

Don DeLillo and Self-Conscious Postmodernism

99

(13)

DeLillo: From Modernism to Postmodernism

112

(11)

Postmodernity and the Historical Novel

123

(29)

With the Grain: Reading Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon

128

(8)

Adorno: The Ageing of the New

136

(3)

Martin Amis's Time's Arrow: The Art of Justification

139

(13)

Postmodern Political Fictions

152

(46)

The Fetish of the New: Culture and Class in Alasdair Gray's Something Leather

152

(11)

Salman Rushdie

163

(35)

Aijaz Ahmad on Rushdie and the Postmodern

164

(6)

Rushdie and Orientalism

170

(3)

`No Place Like Home': Postmodern Politics and The Satanic Verses

173

(7)

The Satanic Verses and The New

180

(8)

Imagining Utopia: The Land of Oz

188

(10)

Postmodern Inadequacies: Adorno contra Jameson

198

(10)

Bibliography

208

(8)

Index

216

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