Postmodern realist fiction uses realism-disrupting literary
techniques to make interventions into the real social conditions of
our time. It seeks to capture the complex, fragmented nature of
contemporary experience while addressing crucial issues like income
inequality, immigration, the climate crisis, terrorism,
ever-changing technologies, shifting racial, sex and gender roles,
and the rise of new forms of authoritarianism. A lucid,
comprehensive introduction to the genre as well as to a wide
variety of voices, this book discusses more than forty writers from
a diverse range of backgrounds, and over several decades, with
special attention to 21st-century novels. Writers covered include:
Kathy Acker, Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche, Julia Alvarez, Sherman
Alexie, Gloria Anzaldua, Margaret Atwood, Toni Cade Bambara, A.S.
Byatt, Octavia Butler, Angela Carter, Ana Castillo, Don DeLillo,
Junot Diaz, Jennifer Egan, Awaeki Emezi, Mohsin Hamid, Jessica
Hagedorn, Maxine Hong Kingston, Ursula K. Le Guin, Daisy Johnson,
Bharati Mukherjee, Toni Morrison, Vladimir Nabokov, Tommy Orange,
Ruth Ozeki, Ishmael Reed, Eden Robinson, Salman Rushdie, Jean Rhys,
Leslie Marmon Silko, Art Spiegelman, Kurt Vonnegut, and Jeannette
Winterson, among others.
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