Postmodern Reader

Joseph Natoli teaches postmodernism at the Center for Integrated Studies/Arts and Humanities at Michigan State University. He is the editor of Tracing Literary Theory, Literary Theory's Future(s), and Psychological Perspectives on Literature: Dissident Freudian and Non-Freudian; author of Mots D'Ordre: Disorder in Literary Worlds also published by SUNY Press, and Twentieth Century Blake Criticism: Northrop Frye to the Present, and co-author of Psychocriticism. Linda Hutcheon is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto. She is the author of A Poetics of Postmodernism: History, Theory, and Fiction; The Politics of Postmodernism; and The Canadian Postmodern.

"Those who recognize that the concept of postmodernism is with us to stay and who meet the necessary responsibility of bringing it to our students will welcome this book. It is ample in its offerings; and from the point of view of the potential user, the convenience and utility of the collection are prime virtues."The mix is refreshing. The selections are both varied and representative; they touch on essential aspects of the topic and exhaust its full range; they also underscore the conflictive nature of what is called 'the postmodern'. " — John W. Kronik, Cornell University"This is an outstanding book—timely, lucid, and much-needed—whose aims are well-fulfilled and that moves with ease from theory to practice."— Alison M. Lee, The University of Western Ontario

• Introduction: Reading A Postmodern Reader I. Modern/Postmodern Preface "Postmodernity, or Living with Ambivalence."Zygmunt Ban "The Postmodern Weltanschauung and its Relation to Modernism: an Introductory Survey."Hans Bertens Excerpts from The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge.Jean-François Lyotard "Modernity versus Postmodernity."Jürgen Habermas "Mapping the Postmodern."Andreas Huyssen "Modernism versus Postmodernism: Towards an Analytic Distinction."David J. Herman II. Representing the Postmodern Preface Excerpts from Postmodernism and its Critics.John McGowan "Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences."Jacques Derrida "Beginning to Theorize Postmodernism."Linda Hutcheon "Toward a Concept of Postmodernism."Ihab Hassan "The Context of the Concept."Charles Russell III. Entanglements and Complicities Preface Excerpts from Postmodernism, Or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism.Fredric Jameson Excerpts from The History of Sexuality: Volume I: An Introduction.Michel Foucault "The Precession of Simulacra."Jean Baudrillard "The Resolution of Revolutions."Thomas Kuhn "Black Culture and Postmodernism."Cornel West "From Here to Modernity: Feminism and Postmodernism."Barbara Creed Excerpts from Thinking Fragments.Jane Flax "Modernism's Last Post."Stephen Slemon IV. Postmodern Practices Preface "Postmodernism as Border Pedagogy: Redefining the Boundaries of Race and Ethnicity."Henry Giroux "Existentialism, Alienation, Postmodernism: Cultural Movements as Vehicles of Change in the Patterns of Everyday Life."Agnes Heller "Postmodern Blackness."bell hooks Excerpts from Dissident Postmodernists.Paul Maltby "Hybridity, the Rap Race, and Pedagogy for the 1990s."Houston A. Baker, Jr. "Towards Cultural History."Catherine Belsey Index