The Fiction of Postmodern America:
Multicultural & Intercultural Perspectives

English 573: Seminar in American Literature *Fall 1996 * Department of English * Washington State Unversity
* Instructor: T.V. Reed * Phone (509) 335-3022 * Office: Avery 202M * Hours: TWTh 9-12 or by appt * E-Mail: reedtv@wsu.edu
COURSE DESCRIPTION: The course title is meant to suggest both a subject matter (postmodern American fiction) and a problem (that the concept of postmodernism is itself a fiction). While there is a body of literature and criticism that is often identified as "postmodern," that concept like all critical concepts is merely a device that allows us to see some aspects of a text while obscuring others. And in this case the concept itself is a notoriously slippery one whose meaning is hotly contested. This class will look at various attempts to define "postmodernity" (as general social condition) and "postmodernism" (as aesthetic ideology & cutltural style). We will also look at various efforts to constitute a "poetics" of postmodern fiction. Throughout we will be evaluating the usefulness of these notions as tools for reading contemporary American fiction. We will look at a range of texts, some closely identified with postmodernism, some not generally considered postmodern, in an effort to understand the uses and limits of the categories.
We will look at these texts in an effort to explore the specific, varied qualities of recent American fiction and the specific varied qualities of our own (perhaps) postmodern lives. In particular we will examine the uneven effects of postmodernity and the variety of postmodernisms as shaped by differences in race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, gender, and region (in this regard the question of what constitutes "America" also will be seen as a critical issue).I will designate this array of socially constructed differences through the shorthand terms "multicultural" and "intercultural." The former term means to stress the semi-autonomy of various USA cultures, the latter term to stress their inevitable, power-laden interdependence as sub-cultures woven into a fabric of domination and resistance.

WEB SITE DESCRIPTION: I have created a World Wide Web site for "The Fiction of Postmodern America" that I invite you to use. The URL (address is): http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~amerstu/573/index.html.
The Web site, in addition to an on-line version of this syllabus, contains links to numerous on-line sites for studying course authors, postmodernism, and related issues. The site also directs you to our course On-line Discussion List (or listserv), a resource that will allow you to continue class discussions via another medium.
Anyone not familiar with use of the Internet might find this a good opportunity to learn to use a tool that is rapidly approaching the scholarly usefulness of the library. I will be happy to schedule an introductory training session for any students in the class who would like to learn more about using the World Wide Web and other Internet resources.
TEXTS: All are available at Students Book Corporation (the Bookie).

Burroughs, William. Naked Lunch

Pynchon, Thomas. Crying of Lot 49

DeLillo, Don. White Noise

Morrison, Toni. Jazz

Bambara, Toni Cade. The Salt Eaters

Castillo, Ana. The Mixquiahuala Letters

Hinojosa-Smith, Rolando. Klail City

Alexie, Sherman. Reservation Blues

Mukherjee, Bharati. The Holder of the World

Hagedorn, Jessica. Dogeaters

Delany, Samuel R. Tales of Neveryon

Gibson, William. Neuromancer

Acker, Kathy. Empire of the Senseless

An inter-active hypertext of the student's choosing (see Requirements).

SECONDARY TEXTS:

Clayton, Jay. Pleasures of Babel
Reserve Readings See below

COURSE REQUIREMENTS:

1. PARTICIPATION: Participation will be judged by quality not just quantity, but attendance and contributions to discussions will form a significant part of your mark. Participation can also include on-line commentary through the course listserv. Those of you who feel more comfortable with "written discussion" might especially wish to take advantage of this alternative mode. [20%]

2. FACILITATION & ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY: You will also be expected to help facilitate one class session on a text of your choosing. In conjunction with the facilitation, you will prepare an annotated bibliography of five to seven articles you believe to be superior examples of a range of approaches to the author/text. You will xerox and give each student in the class a copy of the bibliography one week before we discuss the book (I will then add the bibliography to our class web site). [10%]

3. ANNOTATED WEB SITE: Find and annotate two World-Wide Web sites not yet on the class web site. The sites can deal with a course author or another postmodern author not on the class list, or a postmodern theory site, or another site for whose relevance you can make a case. [5%]

4. HYPERTEXT ESSAY: A brief (3-4pp) analytic response paper on a work of hypertext fiction you find on the World-Wide Web (the class Web site has suggestions for beginning points). Analyze the experience of reading the hypertext, evaluating the claims (hype?) that hypertext represents a significantly new kind of writing and mode of reading. [15%]

5. SEMINAR PAPER: A research essay (approx. 15-25pp) isolating and analyzing one dimension of a class text (or another relevant contemporary text or texts). Papers addressing some aspect of "multi/inter-cultural postmodernism" are encouraged, but you may choose another topic if you wish (especially if it is part of an ongoing area of interest to you -- i.e., dissertation work). As an alternative, you can create a substantial web site on one of the course authors or another contemporary author of your own choosing. [50%]

COURSE OUTLINE & READING SCHEDULE

WEEK 1: Tu AUG 27: INTRODUCTIONS & COURSE OVERVIEW
Th AUG 29-- MAPPING POSTMODERN & CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN LITERATURE
REQ: Huyssen, "Mapping the Postmodern" (xerox)
REC: McCaffery, "Fictions of the Present"
Federman, "Self-Reflexive Fiction"
WEEK 2: Tu SEPT 3 -- MAPPING POSTMODERNITY
REQ: Jameson. "Postmodernism and Consumer Society"
Haraway, "A Cyborg Manifesto"
REC: Harvey, "The Condition of Postmodernity"
Steven Best, and Douglas Kellner, intro. to POSTMODERN THEORY: CRITICAL INVESTIGATIONS (on-line)
Jim English, Review of F. Jameson's book POSTMODERNISM, OR THE CULTURAL LOGIC OF LATE CAPITALISM (on-line)
Th SEPT 5-- POSTMODERN POETICS & MULTICULTURAL FICTIONS
Hutcheon, "Theorising the Postmodern"
Clayton, PLEASURES OF BABEL, ch 1
Carolyn Porter, "What We Know that We Don't Know: Remapping American Literary Studies"
REC: McHale, "Introducing Constructing"

WEEK 3: SEPT 10 & 12 -- NAKED POSTMODERNISM, DECONSTRUCTIVE POLITICS
Burroughs, NAKED LUNCH
Clayton, PLEASURES, ch 2
FILM: "Naked Lucnch," by David Cronenberg -- FRI Sept 13th, 9pm Bundy

WEEK 4: SEPT 17 & 19 -- BEAUTIFUL PARANOIA & THE METAPHOR QUEST
Pynchon, CRYING OF LOT 49
McHale, "From Modernist to Postmodernist Fiction"

WEEK 5: SEPT 24 & 26 -- AIRBORNE TOXIC EVENTS & THE POSTMODERN UNIVERS(E)ITY
DeLillo, WHITE NOISE

WEEK 6: OCT 1 & 3 -- (POST)MODERN DESIRE & BLACK BLUES
Morrison, JAZZ
Clayton, PLEASURES, ch 3
REC: bell hooks, "Postmodern Blackness" (on-line)

WEEK 7: OCT 8 & 10 -- POSTMODERN POLITICS & THE POETICS OF MAGIC
Bambara, THE SALT EATERS
Clayton, PLEASURES, ch 4

WEEK 8: OCT 15 & 17 -- POSTMODERN ETHNOGRAPHIES & CHICANA BORDERLANDS
Castillo, THE MIXQUIAHUALA LETTERS
Clayton, PLEASURES, ch 5

WEEK 9: OCT 22 & 24 -- POSTMODERN TEXAS & BORDER(BAD)LANDS
Hinojosa-Smith, KLAIL CITY
Reread Porter, "What We Know that We Don't Know: Remapping American Literary Studies"

WEEK 10: OCT 29 & 31 -- RED BLUES & THE POSTMODERN REZ
Alexie, RESERVATION BLUES
FILM: "Crossroads" by Walter Hill -- FRI Nov 1st, 9pm Bundy

WEEK 11: NOV 5 & 7 -- AMERICAN INDIANS, INDIAN AMERICANS & THE POST(COLONIAL)MODERN ROMANCE
Mukherjee, HOLDER OF THE WORLD
WEEK 12: NOV 12 & 14 -- POWER & RESISTANCE IN THE PHILIPPINUSA EMPIRE
Hagedorn, DOGEATERS

WEEK 13: NOV 19 & 21 -- READING THE POSTMODERN PAST, QUEERING SF
Delany, TALES OF NEVERYON

Thanksgiving Break NOV 25-29
WEEK 14: DEC 3 & 5 -- PUNK COWBOYS & CYBERGIRRRLS IN SPACE
Gibson, NEUROMANCER
Reread Haraway, "A Cyborg Manifesto"
FILM: "Blade Runner," (director's cut) by Ridley Scott -- FRI Dec 6th, 9pm Bundy
WEEK 15: DEC 10 & 12 -- SENSELESS EMPIRES & POSTMODERN PLAGIARISM
Acker, EMPIRE OF THE SENSELESS
Acker, "Dead Doll Humility" (on-line)

RESERVE READINGS IN HOLLAND & THE BUNDY READING ROOM

NOTE: Secondary readings on postmodernity, postmodernism and on various of the texts and authors we will read are available on reserve in Holland and the Bundy (they are listed below). Those works not on the reading schedule are "recommended," though I may assign some of these pieces as the semester progresses based on how our collective conversation evolves.

Copies of the articles are available at the Holland Library Periodical Room seminar reserve desk (two-hour time limit) and in a file box in the Bundy Reading Room. The few books on the list are also in Holland on the seminar reserve shelf. The file numbers for those in Holland can be found via GRIFFIN.

Pieces in the Bundy are identifiable in the box by the number next to them on the syllabus. Items below are listed more or less in the order in which they might be most useful to the seminar as the semester progresses. While there will be no monitors in the Bundy, in consideration of your fellow seminarians, please read these pieces in the Bundy or sign them out for no more than two hours. If you wish to take one or more home overnight, please sign them out after 3pm on the day you wish to have them and return them by 9am the next morning.

The works on reserve differ in style, approach, and quality, but each should offer us some stimulus for discussion. Many are meant to offer beginning points of orientation; some are more specialized. With regard to the recommended reading, my intent is for you to peruse them and select ones you find of interest with the thought that each week various discussants will have chosen various different ones, thus further diversifying our exchanges.

1. Andreas Huyssen, "Mapping the Postmodern," from Charles Jencks, ed. THE POST-MODERN READER (NY: St. Martin's, 1992):40-72 (xeroxed handout)
2. Larry McCaffery, "Fictions of the Present"
Raymond Federman, "Self-Reflexive Fiction"
These two essays are from Emory Elliot, general editor, THE COLUMBIA LITERARY HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES (NY: Columbia UP, 1988).
3. Fredric Jameson "Postmodernism and Consumer Society," from E. Ann Kaplan, ed. POSTMODERNISM AND ITS DISCONTENTS (London: Verso, 1988):13-29
4. Linda Hutcheon, "Theorising the Postmodern," from Charles Jencks, ed. THE POST-MODERN READER (NY: St. Martin's, 1992):76-93.
5. David Harvey, "The Condition of Postmodernity," from Charles Jencks, ed. THE POST-MODERN READER (NY: St. Martin's, 1992):299-316.
6. Brian McHale, "From Modernist to Postmodernist Fiction," from McHale, POSTMODERNIST FICTION (NY: Routledge, 1987):3-25.
7. Brian McHale, "Introducing Constructing," from McHale, CONSTRUCTING POSTMODERNISM (NY: Routledge, 1992):1-16.
8. Linda Hutcheon, "Intertextuality, Parody and the Discourses of History," from Hutcheon, THE POETICS OF POSTMODERNISM: HISTORY, THEORY, FICTION (NY : Routledge, 1988):125-40.
9. Donna Haraway, "A Cyborg Manifesto," from SIMIANS, CYBORGS, AND WOMEN (NY: Routledge, 1991).
10 Carolyn Porter, "What We Know that We Don't Know: Remapping American Literary Studies," American Literary History 6.3 (1994):467-526.
11 Robin Lydenbergh, "Beyond Good and Evil: 'How To' Read NAKED LUNCH," and "Notes from the Orifice, " from Lydenberg, WORD CULTURES: RADICAL THEORY AND PRACTICE IN THE FICTION OF WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS (Urbana & Chicago: U Illinois P, 1987):3-43.
12. Robert D. Newman, "The Quest for Metaphor in THE CRYING OF LOT 49," from Newman, UNDERSTANDING THOMAS PYNCHON (Columbia, SC: U of South Carolina P, 1986):67-88.
13. Thomas Schaub, "THE CRYING OF LOT 49: 'A Gentle Chill of Ambiguity'," from Schaub, PYNCHON: THE VOICE OF AMBIGUITY (Urbana & Chicago, U of Illinois P, 1981):21-42.
14. Douglas Keesey, "'A Stranger in Your Own Dying: WHITE NOISE," from Keesey, DON DELILLO (NY: Twayne, 1993):133-50.
15. Tom LeClair, "Closing the Loop: WHITE NOISE," from LeClair, IN THE LOOP: DON DELILLO AND THE SYSTEMS NOVEL (Urbana & Chicago: U of Illinois P, 1987):207-35
16 Frank Lentricchia, "The American Writer as Bad Citizen," South Atlantic Quarterly 89.2 (1990):239-44.
17. Daniel Aaron, "How to Read Don DeLillo," South Atlantic Quarterly 89.2 (1990):305-19
18. John Frow, "The Last Things Before the Last: Notes on WHITE NOISE," South Atlantic Quarterly 89.2 (1990):413-29.
19. Tracey Sherard, "It's Okeh: the Her-Story of Harlem in JAZZ," ms.
20. Eusebio L. Rodrigues, "Experiencing JAZZ," Modern Fiction Studies 39.3/4 (1993):733-54.
21. Doreatha Drummund Mbalia, "Women Who Run with the Wild: The Need for Sisterhood in JAZZ," Modern Fiction Studies 39.3/4 (1993):623-46.
22. Gloria Hull, "'What It Is I Think She is Doing Anyhow'" from Marjorie Pryse & Hortense Spillers, eds. CONJURING: BLACK WOMEN, FICTION AND LITERARY TRADITION (Bloomington, ID: Indiana UP, 1985):216-32.
23. Eleanor Traylor, "Music as Theme: The Jazz Mode in the Works of Toni Cade Bambara," from Mari Evans, ed. BLACK WOMEN WRITERS (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1984): 58-71.
24. Elliot Butler-Evans, "The Salt Eaters," from RACE, GENDER AND DESIRE; NARRATIVE STRATEGIES IN THE FICTION OF TONI CADE BAMBARA, TONI MORRISON, AND ALICE WALKER (Philadelphia: Temple UP, 1989):171-87.
25. Janelle Collins, "Generating Power: Fission, Fusion and Postmodern Politics in THE SALT EATERS," ms. (forthcoming in MELUS).
26. Alvina Quintana, "Shades of the Indigenous Ethnographer: Ana Castillo's MIXQUIAHUALA LETTERS," from Quintana, HOMEGIRLS: CHICANA LITERARY VOICES (Philadelphia: Temple UP, 1996):75-92.
27. Barbara Curiel, "Heteroglossia in Ana Castillo's THE MIXQUIAHUALA LETTERS," Discourso 7.1 (1990):11-23.
28. Yvonne Ybarro-Bejarano, "The Multiple Subject in the Writng of Ana Castillo," The Americas Review 20.1 (1992):65-72.
29. Ramon Saldivar, "Rolando Hinojosa's KOREAN LOVE SONGS and KLAIL CITY DEATH TRIP," from Saldivar, CHICANO NARRATIVE : THE DIALECTICS OF DIFFERENCE (Madison, Wis.: U of Wisconsin P, 1990):133-47
30. Jose David Saldivar, "Writing Border Culture and History: The Poetics and Politics of Hinojosa's KLAIL CITY DEATH TRIP Series," from Saldivar, DIALECTICS OF OUR AMERICA (Durham, NC: Duke UP Press, 1991):62-84.
31. Guillermo E. Hernandez, "Rolando Hinojosa's KLAIL CITY DEATH TRIP Series," from Hernandez, CHICANO SATIRE (Austin, TX: U of Texas P, 1991):85-111.
32. Alan Velie, "The Trickster Novel," from Gerald Vizenor, ed. NARRATIVE CHANCE (Albuquerque: U. New Mexico P, 1989):121-39.
33. James Stripes, "Beyond the Cameo School: Decolongizing the Academy in a World of Postmodern Multiculturalism," Wicazo Sa Review 11.1 (1995):24-32.
34. Gerald Vizenor, "Trickster Discourse: Comic Holotropes and Language Games," from Vizenor, ed. NARRATIVE CHANCE (Albuquerque: U. New Mexico P, 1989):187-211.
35 Jennifer Gillan "Reservation Home Movies: Sherman Alexie's Poetry," American Literature 68.1 (1996):91-110.
36. Fakrul Alam, "A Hunger for Connectedness," from Alam, BHARATI MUKHERJEE (NY: Twayne, 1996).
37 Rebecca Stephens, " Spectral Autobiographies: Rememorizing the Nation in Bharati Mukherjee's THE HOLDER OF THE WORLD," ms.
38. E. San Juan, Jr., "In Search of Filipino Writing: Reclaiming Whose 'America'?" from David Palumbo-Liu, ed. THE ETHNIC CANON (Minneapolis: U Minnesota P, 1995.
39. Robert F. Reid-Pharr, "Disseminating Heterotopia," African American Review 28.3 (1994):347-57
40. Kathleen L. Spencer, "Deconstructing TALES OF NEVERYON: Delany, Derrida and the 'Modular Calculus, Parts I-IV'," Essays in Arts and Sciences 14 (1985):59-89.
41. Damien Broderick, "SF as Modular Calculus," from Broderick, READING BY STARLIGHT: POSTMODERN SCIENCE FICTION (NY: Routledge, 1995):128-36
42. Robin Roberts, "Postmodernism and Feminist Science Fiction," Science-Fiction Studies 17 (1990):136-52.
43. Veronica Hollinger, "Cybernetic Deconstructions: Cyberpunk and Pomo," Larry McCaffery, ed. STORMING THE REALITY STUDIO: A CASEBOOK OF CYBERPUNK AND POSTMODERN SCIENCE FICTION (Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1991):203-18.
44. Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, "Cyberpunk and Neuromanticism," from Larry McCaffery, ed. STORMING THE REALITY STUDIO (Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1991):183-93.
45. Brian McHale, "POSTcyberMODERNpunkISM," from Larry McCaffery, ed. STORMING THE REALITY STUDIO (Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1991):308-22.
46. Nicola Nixon, "Cyberpunk: Preparing the Ground for Revolution or Keeping the Boys Satisfied?" Science-Fiction Studies 19 (1992):219-35.
47. Scott Bukatman, "Cyberspace," from Bukatman, TERMINAL IDENTITY (Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1993):119-56.
48. Ellen G. Friedman, "`Now Eat Your Mind': An Introduction to the Works of Kathy Acker," Review of Contemporary Fiction 9.3 (1989):37-49.
49. Naomi Jacobs, "Kathy Acker and the Plagiarized Self," Review of Contemporary Fiction 9.3 (1989):50-55.
50. Douglas Shields Dix, "Kathy Acker's DON QUIXOTE: Nomad Writing," Review of Contemporary Fiction," 9.3 (1989):56-61.

ON-LINE RECOMMENDED READINGS:

Kathy Acker, "Dead Doll Humility"
Walter Kalaidjian, "Mainlining Postmodernism: Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, And The Art Of Intervention"
Jim English, review of F. Jameson's book POSTMODERNISM, OR THE CULTURAL LOGIC OF LATE CAPITALISM
bell hooks, "Postmodern Blackness"
Carlos Gallego, "Multiculturalism and the Cultural Logic of Postmodernity"
Steven Best & Douglas Kellner, excerpts from POSTMODERN THEORY: CRITICAL INVESTIGATIONS

RESERVE BOOKS

Larry McCaffery, ed. ACROSS THE WOUNDED GALAXIES: INTERVIEWS WITH CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN SCIENCE FICTION WRITERS (Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1990) Includes interviews with Burroughs, Gibson and Delany.
Linda Nicholson, and Steven Seidman, eds. SOCIAL POSTMODERNISM (NY: Cambridge UP, 1995).
Paul Maltby, DISSIDENT POSMODERNISTS: BARTHELME, COOVER, PYNCHON (Philadelphia: U Pennsylvania P, 1991).
Emmanuel Nelson, ed. BHARATI MUKHERJEE: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES (NY: Garland, 1993).
Aijaz Ahmad, IN THEORY: CLASSES, NATIONS, LITERATURES (London: Verso, 1992).
Gita Rajan and Radhika Mohanram, eds. POSTCOLONIAL DISCOURSE AND CHANGING CULTURAL CONTEXTS: THEORY AND CRITICISM (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1995).

SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER BACKGROUND READING

ON POSTMODERNITY

Arac, Jonathan, ed. POSTMODERNISM AND POLITICS.
Baudrillard, Jean. SELECTED WRITINGS.
---. A BAUDRILLARD READER.
Bertens, Hans. THE IDEA OF THE POSTMODERN: A HISTORY.
Conner, Steven. POSTMODERN CULTURE.
Fekete, John, ed. LIFE AFTER POSTMODERNISM.
Habermas, Jurgen, THE PHILOSOPHICAL DISCOURSE OF MODERNITY.
Harvey, David. THE CONDITION OF POSTMODERNITY.
Huyssen, Andreas. AFTER THE GREAT DIVIDE.
Hutcheon, Linda. POLITICS OF POSTMODERNISM.
Jameson, Fredric. POSTMODERNISM, OR THE CULTURAL LOGIC OF LATE CAPITALISM
Kaplan, E. Ann, ed. POSTMODERNISM AND ITS DISCONTENTS.
McGowan, John. POSTMODERNISM AND ITS CRITICS.
Morris, Meaghan. THE PIRATE'S FIANCEE: FEMINISM, READING, POSTMODERNISM.
Lyotard, Jean-Francois. THE POSTMODERN CONDITION.
Nicholson, Linda et al., eds. FEMINISM/POSTMODERNISM.
Ross, Andrew, ed. UNIVERSAL ABANDON?

ON THE POETICS OF POSTMODERN FICTION

Barr, Marleen. FEMINIST FABULATION.
Carmello, Charles. SILVERLESS MIRRORS: BOOK, SELF, AND POSTMODERN AMERICAN FICTION.
Couturier, Maurice. REPRESENTATION AND PERFORMANCE IN POSTMODERN FICTION.
Fokkema, Douwe, ed. LITERARY HISTORY, MODERNISM, POSTMODERNISM.
--- & Hans Berten, eds. APPROACHING POSTMODERNISM.
Foster, Hal, ed. THE ANTI-AESTHETIC.
Fox, Robert. CONSCIENTIOUS SORCERERS: BLACK POSTMODERNIST FICTION.
Hassan, Ihab. THE DISMEMBERMENT OF ORPHEUS.
Hutcheon, Linda. A POETICS OF POSTMODERNISM.
Klinkowitz, Jerome. LITERARY DISRUPTIONS.
Leitch, Vicent. POSTMODERNISM: LOCAL EFFECTS, GLOBAL FLOWS
McCaffery, Larry. THE METAFICTIONAL MUSE: THE WORKS OF ROBERT COOVER, DONALD BARTHELME, AND WILLIAM H. GASS.
---. POSTMODERN FICTION: A BIO-BIBLIOGRAPHY.
---, ed. STORMING THE REALITY STUDIO: A CASEBOOK ON CYBERPUNK AND POSTMODERN SCIENCE FICTION.
McHale, Brian. POSTMODERNIST FICTION.
Putz, Manfred & Peter Freese, eds. POSTMODERNISM IN AMERICAN LITERATURE: A CRITICAL ANTHOLOGY.
Scholes, Robert. FABULATION AND METAFICTION.
Tabbi, Joseph. POSTMODERN SUBLIME.
Thiher, Allen. WORDS IN REFLECTION: MODERN LANGUAGE THEORY AND POSTMODERN FICTION.
Varsava, Jerry. CONTINGENT MEANINGS.
Vizenor, Gerald, ed. NARRATIVE CHANCE: POSTMODERN DISCOURSE ON THE NATIVE AMERICAN NOVEL
Waugh, Patricia. FEMININE FICTIONS: REVISITING THE POSTMODERN.
---. METAFICTION.
Weisenburger, Steven. FABLES OF SUBVERSION.
Ziegler, Heidi, ed. THE END OF POSTMODERNISM: NEW DIRECTIONS.

The Fiction of Postmodern America: Multicultural & Intercultural Perspectives

COURSE OUTLINE & READING SCHEDULE

The Fiction of Postmodern America:
Multicultural & Intercultural Perspectives