Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS iii
3. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS vi
4. INTRODUCTION: WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT POSTMODERNISM 1
5. PART I THE POSTMODERN CONDITION
6. INTRODUCTION 11
7. MAPPING POSTMODERNISM
8. 1 THE CULTURAL LOGIC OF LATE CAPITALISM’ 20
9. 2 ‘TIME-SPACE COMPRESSION AND THE POSTMODERN CONDITION’ 40
10. 3 ‘MAPPING THE POSTMODERN’ 59
11. NARRATIVE, KNOWLEDGE, REPRESENTATION
12. 4 FROM THE POSTMODERN CONDITION: A REPORT ON KNOWLEDGE 72
13. 5 THE PRECESSION OF SIMULACRA’ 91
14. IRONY AND ‘DOUBLE CODING’ 6 ‘POSTMODERNISM, IRONY, THE ENJOYABLE’
15. 6 ‘POSTMODERNISM, IRONY, THE ENJOYABLE’ 110
16. 7 ‘POST-MODERNISM DEFINED’ 113
17. DIAGNOSING POSTMODERNISM
18. 8 ‘YOU MAY!’ 121
19. PART II THE POSTMODERN TU RN
20. INTRODUCTION 131
21. 9 THE LITERATURE OF EXHAUSTION’ 138
22. 10 ‘MASS SOCIETY AND POSTMODERN FICTION’ 148
23. 11 ‘ONE CULTURE AND THE NEW SENSIBILITY’ 153
24. 12 ‘CROSS THE BORDER - CLOSE THAT GAP: POST-MODERNISM’ 162
25. 13 THE DETECTIVE AND THE BOUNDARY: SOME NOTES ON THE POSTMODERN LITERARY IMAGINATION’ 169
26. 14 ‘POSTmodernISM: A PARACRITICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY’ 186
27. 15 THE MYTH OF THE POSTMODERN BREAKTHROUGH’ 207
28. PART III POSTMODERN POETICS
29. INTRODUCTION 217
30. THE NOVEL
31. 16 FROM S/Z 226
32. 17 FROM ‘DISCOURSE IN THE NOVEL’ 231
33. 18 FROM METAFICTION 239
34. TOWARDS A POETICS OF POSTMODERN FICTION
35. 19 ‘POSTMODERNIST FICTION’ 250
36. 20 ‘CHANGE OF DOMINANT FROM MODERNIST TO POSTMODERNIST WRITING’ 278
37. 21 FROM A POETICS OF POSTMODERNISM 301
38. POSTMODERN GENRE
39. 22 FROM THE DOOMED DETECTIVE 320
40. PART IV POSTMODERN POLITICS
41. INTRODUCTION 329
42. POLITICS AND FICTIONALITY
43. 23 FROM THE POLITICS OF POSTMODERNISM 339
44. 24 TH E ETHICS OF ALTERITY’ 355
45. 25 FROM DISSIDENT POSTMODERNISTS 371
46. FEMINISM AND POSTMODERNISM
47. 26 ‘FEMINISM, READING, POSTMODERNISM’ 390
48. 27 ‘A MANIFESTO FOR CYBORGS: SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIALIST FEMINISM IN THE 1980s’ 396
49. IS THE ‘POST’ IN POSTCOLONIAL THE SAME AS THE ‘POST’ IN POSTMODERN?
50. 28 ‘POSTMODERN BLACKNESS’ 421
51. 29 THE POSTCOLONIAL AND THE POSTMODERN’ 429
52. TECHNOLOGY AND PARANOIA
53. 30 ‘CYBERNETIC DECONSTRUCTIONS: CYBERPUNK AND POSTMODERNISM’ 446
54. 31 ‘ENGENDERING PARANOIA IN CONTEMPORARY NARRATIVE’ 463
55. NAMES INDEX 479
56. SUBJECT INDEX 486