Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. General preface v
3. Foreword vii
4. Acknowledgements x
5. List of illustrations xi
6. Table of contents xiii
7. I. Introductory Essays
8. 1.1 The Debate on Postmodernism 3
9. 1.2 The Semiotics of Literacy Postmodernism 15
10. 1.3 The Inscription of Postmodenism in Poetry 43
11. 1.4 The Politics of Postmodernism after the Wall 51
12. 1.5 Rethinking the Postmodernity of the Discourse of postmodernism 65
13. 1.6 Postmodernity as a Philosophical Concept 75
14. 1.7 The Concept of Postmodernism from a Philosophical Point of View 89
15. 1.8 The Sociology of Postmodernity 103
16. II. Postmodernism in the Other Arts
17. 2.0 Introductory Note 121
18. 2.1 Post-modern Architecture and Time Fusion 123
19. 2.2 Postmodernism and Theatrical Performance 129
20. 2.3 Postmodernism and Film 141
21. 2.4 Postmodern Dance 151
22. 2.5 On Postmodernism in Music 157
23. 2.6 Postmodernism and the Visual Arts 167
24. III. Renovations and Innovations in Postmodernist Writing
25. 3.0 Introductory Note 177
26. 3.1 Postmodernist Renovations of Narrative Genres
27. 3.1.1. The Western 183
28. 3.1.2 The Detective 195
29. 3.1.3 Historical Fiction 203
30. 3.1.4 The Heimat Novel 213
31. 3.1.5 Autobiography 221
32. 3.1.6 Science Fiction 235
33. 3.2 Other Strategies and Devices in Postmodernist Writing
34. 3.2.1 Rewriting 243
35. 3.2.2 Intertextuality 249
36. 3.2.3 Self-referentiality 257
37. 3.2.4 The Refutation of Truth Claims 265
38. 3.2.5 Nonteleological Narration 273
39. 3.2.6 Postmodernisms 283
40. IV. The Reception and Processing of Postmodernism
41. 4.0 Introductory Note 297
42. 4.1 An Arkeology of (My) Canadian Postmodern 307
43. 4.2 Latin America
44. 4.2.1. Postmodernism in Spanish-American Writing 315
45. 4.2.2. Postmodernism in Brazil 327
46. 4.3 Western and Southern Europe
47. 4.3.1. Postmodernism in the United Kingdom and the republic of Ireland 337
48. 4.3.2. Postmodernism in France 353
49. 4.3.3. Postmodernism in the German- and Dutch- Speaking Countries 359
50. 4.3.4. Postmodernism in Scandinavia 375
51. 4.3.5. Postmodernism in Finland 383
52. 4.3.6. Postmodernism in Italy 387
53. 4.3.7. Postmodernity and Literture in Spain 397
54. 4.3.8.Postmodernism in Portugal 405
55. 4.4. Central and Eastern Europe
56. 4.4.1. Postmodernism in Slovak Literature 413
57. 4.4.2. Postmodernism in Czech Literature 419
58. 4.4.3. Postmodernism in Poland 423
59. 4.4.4. Postmodern Literature in Hungary 429
60. 4.4.5. Romanian Postmodernism 435
61. 4.4.6. Postmodernism in the Literatures of Former Yugoslavia 441
62. 4.4.7. Postmodernism in Post-Soviet Latvia 447
63. 4.4.8. Postmodernism in Russia 451
64. 4.5 africa
65. 4.5.1. Postmodernism in African Literature in English 463
66. 4.5.2. Postmodernism and African Francophone Literature 469
67. 4.5.3. Modernism and Postmodernism in African Literatute in Portuguese 477
68. 4.5.4. South Africa 483
69. 4.6. Facets of postmodernism 491
70. 4.7. The Reception of Postmodernism in China 499
71. 4.8. Postmodernism in Japan 511
72. Contributors 517
73. Bibliography of secondary Sources 523
74. Subject Index 553
75. Index of Names 558