Postmodern American Literature and Its Other

Postmodern American Literature and Its Other
Author: W. Lawrence Hogue
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2009
Genre: American literature
ISBN: 0252033833

Redefining postmodern American literature to include the voices of women and nonwhite writers

Africana Methodology

Africana Methodology
Author: James L. Conyer, Jr.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2018-10-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1527519406

This book critically examines the collection, interpretation, and analysis of quantitative and qualitative data from an Afrocentric perspective. The necessity of interpretive Afrocentric research is relevant to position agency and to locate Africana studies in place, space, and time. This study will provide readers with a compilation of literary, historical, philosophical, and social science essays that describe and evaluate the Africana experience from a methodological perspective. Paradoxically, the collection presents measurable and qualitative research, in order to flush out a global Pan–Africanist consciousness.

The Cambridge Companion to Postmodern American Fiction

The Cambridge Companion to Postmodern American Fiction
Author: Paula Geyh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2017-04-24
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1108179444

Few previous periods in the history of American literature could rival the richness of the postmodern era - the diversity of its authors, the complexity of its ideas and visions, and the multiplicity of its subjects and forms. This volume offers an authoritative, comprehensive, and accessible guide to the American fiction of this remarkable period. It traces the development of postmodern American fiction over the past half-century and explores its key aesthetic, cultural, and political contexts. It examines its principal styles and genres, from the early experiments with metafiction to the most recent developments, such as the graphic novel and digital fiction, and offers concise, compelling readings of many of its major works. An indispensable resource for students, scholars, and the general reader, the Companion both highlights the extraordinary achievements of postmodern American fiction and provides illuminating critical frameworks for understanding it.

Postmodernism in Pieces

Postmodernism in Pieces
Author: Matthew Mullins
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2016
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0190459506

Postmodernism in Pieces performs a postmortem on what is perhaps the most contested paradigm in literary studies, breaking postmodernism down into its most fundamental orthodoxies and reassembles it piece by piece in light of recent theoretical developments in Actor-Network-Theory, object-oriented philosophy, new materialism, and posthumanism.

The Cambridge History of African American Literature

The Cambridge History of African American Literature
Author: Maryemma Graham
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 861
Release: 2011-02-03
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0521872170

A major new history of the literary traditions, oral and print, of African-descended peoples in the United States.

Cross-Cultural Visions in African American Literature

Cross-Cultural Visions in African American Literature
Author: Y. Hakutani
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2011-05-23
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0230119123

The most influential East-West artistic, cultural, and literary exchange that has taken place in modern and postmodern times was the reading and writing of haiku. Here, esteemed contributors investigate the impact of Eastern philosophy and religion on African American writers such as Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, and Toni Morrison, offering a fresh field of literary inquiry.

New Media and the Transformation of Postmodern American Literature

New Media and the Transformation of Postmodern American Literature
Author: Casey Michael Henry
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2019-02-07
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1350064971

How has American literature after postmodernism responded to the digital age? Drawing on insights from contemporary media theory, this is the first book to explore the explosion of new media technologies as an animating context for contemporary American literature. Casey Michael Henry examines the intertwining histories of new media forms since the 1970s and literary postmodernism and its aftermath, from William Gaddis's J R and Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho through to David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest. Through these histories, the book charts the ways in which print-based postmodern writing at first resisted new mass media forms and ultimately came to respond to them.

The Future Imaginary in Indigenous North American Arts and Literatures

The Future Imaginary in Indigenous North American Arts and Literatures
Author: Kristina Baudemann
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2021-12-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000529894

This book examines the future in Indigenous North American speculative literature and digital arts. Asking how different Indigenous works imagine the future and how they negotiate settler colonial visions of what is to come, the chapters illustrate that the future is not an immutable entity but a malleable textual/digital product that can function as both a colonial tool and a catalyst for decolonization. Central to this study is the development of a methodology that helps unearth the signifying structures producing the future in selected works by Darcie Little Badger, Gerald Vizenor, Stephen Graham Jones, Skawennati, Danis Goulet, Scott Benesiinaabandan, Postcommodity, Kite, Jeff Barnaby, and Ryan Singer. Drawing on Jason Lewis’s "future imaginary" as the theoretical core, the book describes the various forms of textual representation and virtual simulation through which notions of Indigenous continuation are expressed in literary and new media works. Arguing that Indigenous authors and artists apply the aesthetics of the future as a strategy in their works, the volume conceptualizes its multimedia corpus as a continuously growing archive of, and for, Indigenous futures.

Linguistics, Literature and Culture

Linguistics, Literature and Culture
Author: Shakila Abdul Manan
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2012-12-05
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1443843962

This book documents the changing realities in the fields of linguistics, literature and culture in Asia, resulting from globalization, modernisation and rapid technological development. It consists of sixteen essays by academics and researchers around the world, reflecting on the interface between the global and the local, and its impact on the local and regional languages, literatures and cultures of Asia. This scenario, which exemplifies language contact in action, is captured by the book mainly to demonstrate that linguistic negotiations, appropriations and indeed changes are not one-way. As such, their implications on language use, language choice, language policy and planning, literacy and pedagogy, identity, subjectivity and culture need to be closely examined. The uniqueness of this book lies in its attempt to showcase original research in a variety of multicultural settings. Its multi- and cross-disciplinary approach will appeal to a wide spectrum of readers from diverse backgrounds. This book will serve as a useful reference that is both scholarly and informative for researchers as well as academics in the fields of linguistics, literature and culture.

The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Pynchon

The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Pynchon
Author: Inger H. Dalsgaard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2012
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0521769744

This essential Companion to Thomas Pynchon provides all the necessary tools to unlock the challenging fiction of this postmodern master.