Postmodernist literature embraces a wide range of forms and
perspectives, including texts that are primarily self-reflexive;
texts that use pastiche, burlesque, parody, intertextuality and
hybrid forms to create textual realities that either run in
opposition to or in parallel with an external reality; fabulations
that develop both of these strategies; texts that ironize their
relationship to reality; works that use the aspects already noted
to more fully engage with political or cultural realities; texts
that deal with history as a fiction; and texts that elude
categorization even within the variety already explored. For
example, in fiction, a postmodernist novel might tell a story about
a writer struggling with writing (only, perhaps, to find that he is
a character in a book by another writer struggling to write a
book). The A to Z of Postmodernist Literature and Theater examines
the different areas of postmodernist literature and the variety of
forms that have been produced. This is accomplished through a
chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and several
hundred cross-referenced dictionary entries on individual
postmodernist writers, the important postmodernist aesthetic
practices, significant texts produced throughout the history of
postmodernist writing, and important movements and ideas that have
created a variety of literary approaches within the form. By
placing these concerns within the historical, philosophical, and
cultural contexts of postmodernism, this reference explores the
frameworks within which postmodernist literature of the late
twentieth and early twenty-first century operates.
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