Narrative Innovation and Cultural Rewriting in the Cold War Era and After

MARCEL CORNIS-POPE is Professor and Chair of the English Department at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is the author of Hermeneutic Desire and Critical Rewriting (Macmillan/SMP 1992).

"... a unique book...one that will prompt a new direction in American literary studies." - Jerome Klinkowitz, South Atlantic Review "Cornis-Pope's strengths as a critic are many and formidable...his command of theory wide-ranging and masterful..." - Brian McHale, The Comparatist "...show[s] that postmodern versatility can be culturally significant in the post-Cold War reconstruction and restructuring." - Maria Ionita, Literary Research "...he usefully breaks out of some of the dichotomies and reductions that have characterized some criticisms of postmodernity." - Marc Singer, Symploke "...both extraordinarily thorough and comprehensive, and attentive to the nuances and specificities of the writers he discusses." - Adam Katz, American Book Review

• Postmodernism's Polytropic Imagination: Unwriting/Rewriting the Cold War Narratives of Polarization When the 'Mystery of Reason' Confronts the 'Mystery of Desire': The Rearticulation of History in Polysystemic Fiction Narrative as an 'Interventive' Mode: From Surfiction to Avant-Pop Revisionistic Narratives from the Interstices of the Cold War: Postmodern Feminist Fiction 'Chain of Links' or 'Disorderly Tangle of Lines'? Alternative Cartographies of Modernity in Thomas Pynchon's Fiction Interventive Writing in the 'Post Human' Age: Experiential and Cultural Rearticulation in Ronald Sukenick Fiction Narrative (Dis)Articulation in the 'Shadowbox' of History: Raymond Federman's Exploratory Surfiction Translating a History of Unspeakable' Otherness into a Discourse of Empowered 'Choices': Toni Morrison's Novels of Radical Rememory