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.

  • 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.