{"product_id":"postmodern-american-literature-and-its-other-9780252033834","title":"Postmodern American Literature and Its Other","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRedefining postmodern American literature to include the voices of women and nonwhite writers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e Outstanding Academic Title, 2010.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Bringing to the discussion the work of such authors as Rikki Ducornet and Ishmael Reed, Hogue creates an intriguing discussion that informs the scholarly debate regarding postmodernism.  Highly recommended.”--\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In \u003ci\u003ePostmodern American Literature and Its Other,\u003c\/i\u003e W. Lawrence Hogue presents the most extended critique of contemporary American literature’s blind spots published to date. Few critics before Hogue have taken such a nuanced approach to the best work of Pynchon, Auster, Ducornet, Acker, Reed, and Vizenor; perhaps none have addressed the degree to which these authors remain within or work against the narrowest precepts of the Enlightenment. Hogue’s model of a “planetary postmodernism” that places the Others--people of color, women, syncretic religions--at the center of literature offers a way forward into new epistemological possibilities. This book will challenge our conversations about American literature for years to come.”--Darryl Dickson-Carr, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Columbia Guide to Contemporary African American Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“W. Lawrence Hogue opens up the postmodern canon--he makes the authors he criticizes more intriguing to read and study, and he gives multicultural and women authors their rightful place in postmodern American literature. Intriguing and thought-provoking.”--Jane Davis, author of \u003ci\u003eThe White Image in the Black Mind: A Study of African American Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface   ix\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments   xv\u003cbr\u003e 1. Postmodern American Literature and Its Other: The Euro-American Male, Woman, the African American, the American Indian, the Poor, and the Global Periphery   1\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Privileged, Sovereign, Euro-American (Male), Post\/Modern Subject and Its Construction of the Other: Thomas Pynchon's V. and Paul Auster's \u003ci\u003eThe New York Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e   42\u003cbr\u003e 3. Constructing Woman as Subject: Rikki Ducornet's \u003ci\u003eThe Jade Cabinet\u003c\/i\u003e and Kathy Acker's \u003ci\u003ePussy, King of the Pirates\u003c\/i\u003e   94\u003cbr\u003e 4. Signifying Planetary Postmodernity: Ischmael Reed's \u003ci\u003eMumbo Jumbo\u003c\/i\u003e and Gerald Vizenor's \u003ci\u003eThe Heirs of Columbus\u003c\/i\u003e   143\u003cbr\u003e 5. Conclusion   189\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Notes   193\u003cbr\u003e Works Cited   199\u003cbr\u003e Index   209","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400422760791,"sku":"9780252033834","price":35.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780252033834.jpg?v=1730470648","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/postmodern-american-literature-and-its-other-9780252033834","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}