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Book SynopsisAlthough postmodern theorists have paid little attention to the short story per se, much of what they say can be applied to the genre. And many short-story writers have created postmodern modes for their stories to provide structure and meaning. Through a variety of fictional forms and themes, postm
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction by Farhat Iftekharuddin
Fictional Nonfiction And Nonfictional Fiction Playing It Straight by Making It Up: Imaginative Leaps in the Personal Essay by Marilyn Abildskov Facts and Fancy: The "Nonfiction Short Story" by Michele Morano Historiografiction: The Fictionalization of History in the Short Story by Michael Orlofsky
Women's Identity in the Postmodern World Closure in Sandra Cisneros's "Woman Hollering Creek" by Rose Marie Cutting The Silence of the Bears: Leslie Marmon Silko's Writerly Act of Spiritual Storytelling by Brewster E. Fitz The Feminine Consciousness as Nightmare in the Short-Short Stories of Joyce Carol Oates by Wayne Stengel Postmodernism in Women's Short Story Cycles: Lorrie Moore's Anagrams by Karen Weekes
Contemporary Men and Their Stories Crippled by the Truth: Oracular Pronouncements, Titillating Titles, and the Postmodern Ethic by Richard Lee Male Paradigms in Thom Jones and Tom Paine by Paul R. Lilly Eloquence and Plot in Denis Johnson's Jesus' Son: The Merging of Premodern and Modernist Narrative by J. Scott Farrin Ardor with a Silent H: Submitting to the Ache of Love in Edmund White's "Skinned Alive" by Raymond Frontain The Genre Which Is Not One: Hemingway's In Our Time, Difference, and the Short Story Cycle by Peter Donahue
Death As Image And Theme In Short Fiction Short Stories to Film: Richard Ford's "Great Falls" and "Children" as Bright Angel by Larry D. Griffin Melancholia and the Death Motif in Richard Brautigan's Short Fiction by Brenda M. Palo Perhaps She Had Not Told Him All the Story: The Disnarrated in James Joyce's Dubliners by Howard Lindhom
Postmodern Narrative Around The World Multiple Narrative Frames in R. R. R. Dhlomo's "Juwawa" by Christine Loflin Beyond Genre: Canadian Surrealist Short Fiction by Allan Weiss Postmodernism in the American Short Story: Some General Observations and Some Specific Cases by Harold Kaylor Selected Bibliography Index About the Editors and Contributors
