Narrative Innovation and Cultural Rewriting in the Cold War Era and After
Narrative Innovation and Cultural Rewriting undertakes a systematic study of postmodernism's responses to the polarized ideologies of the postwar period that have held cultures hostage to a confrontation between rival ideologies abroad and a clash between
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Narrative Innovation and Cultural Rewriting in the Cold War and After MARCEL CORNIS- POPE
Palgrave
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NARRATIVE INNOVATION AND CULTURAL REWRITING IN THE COLD WAR AND AFTER © MARCEL CORNIS-POPE, 2001 Softcover reprint ofthe hardcover 1st edition2001 978-0-312-23837-7 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. First published 2001 by PALGRAVPM 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y 10010 and Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Companies and representatives throughout the world. PALGRAVE is the new global publishing imprint of St. Martin's Press LLC Scholarly and Reference Division and Palgrave Publishers Ltd (formerly Macmillan Press Ltd). ISBN 978-1-349-63182-7
DOI 10.1007/978-1-4039-7003-9
ISBN 978-1-4039-7003-9 (eBook)
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Cornis- Pope, Marcel Narrative innovation and cultural rewriting in the Cold War era and after j Marcel Cornis- Pope. p.
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Includes bibliographical references
(p.) and index.
1. American fiction-2oth century- History and criticism. 2. Experimental fiction, American- History and criticism. 3- Pynchon, Thomas- Criticism and interpretation. 4. Sukenick, Ronald-Criticism and interpretation. 5. Federman, Raymond-Criticism and interpretation. 6. Morrison, Toni-Criticism and interpretation. 7 Postmodernism (Literature)-United States. 8. Cold War in literature. 9. Narration (Rhetoric). I. Title.
PS374.E95 P66 2001 813'.5409II-dc21 2001031734 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Design by Letre Libre, Inc. First edition: December 2001
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The following material is reprinted with permission: "Postmodernism Beyond Self- Reflection: Radical Mimesis in Recent Fiction," in Mimesis, Semiosis and Power, ed. Ronald Bogue (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub!. Co., 1991), 127-55. "Poetics as Politics in Postmodernism" and "Our Own 'Ghoststory': Rewriting Postmodern History," The American Book Review 13.1 (April- May 1991): I, 5, 7; and 14.3 (Aug.-Sept. 1992): 26-27, 30. "Rethinking Postmodern Liminality: Marginocentric Characters and Projects in Thomas Pynchon's Polysystemic Fiction," in Symploke 5.1-2 (1997): 27-47 "Narrative (Dis)Articulation and The Voice in the Closet Complex in Raymond Federman's Fiction" and "Rewriting the Encounter with the Other: Narrative and Cultural Transgression in The Public Burning," Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 29.2 (Winter 1988): 77-94 and 42.1 (Fall2ooo): 40-50. Reprinted With Permission Of The Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation. Published By Heldref Publications, 1319 18th St. N.W, Washington, D.C. 20036-1802. Copyright 1988, 2001. "Going to BEthiCKETT on the Way to Heaven" by Marcel Cornis- Pope in Engagement and Indifference: Beckett and the Political by Henry Sussman and Christopher Devenney (Eds.), by permission of the State Univ