Front Matter

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Preface ix
5. Troping History: Modernist Residue in Jameson’s Pastiche and Hutcheon’s Parody 1
6. Postmodernism and History: Complicitous Critique and the Political Unconscious 23
7. Postmodernism, Fiction, History
8. A Mother (and a Son, and a Brother, and a Wife, et al.) in History: Stories Galore in Libra and the Warren Commission Report 43
9. Donald Barthelme and the President of the United States 61
10. “Postmodern Blackness”: Toni Morrison’s Beloved and the End of History 75
11. Historiographic Metafiction and the Celebration of Differences: Ishmael Reed’s Mumbo Jumbo 93
12. Troping the Renaissance: Postmodern Historiography and Early Modern History 111
13. Postmodernism, Architecture, History
14. Los Angeles, 2019: Two Tales of a City 123
15. Postmodern Casinos 137
16. Postmodernism and Holocaust Memory:Productive Tensions in the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum 167
17. Afterword
18. “Acting from the Midst of Identities”: Questions from Linda Hutcheon 199
19. Works Cited 207
20. Contributors 219
21. Index 221