Although literary postmodernism has been defined in terms of
difference, multiplicity, heterogeneity, and plurality, some of the
most vaunted authors of postmodern American fiction--such as Thomas
Pynchon, Paul Auster, and other white male authors--often fail to
adequately represent the distinct subjectivities of African
Americans, American Indians, Latinos and Latinas, women, the poor,
and the global periphery. In this groundbreaking study, W. Lawrence
Hogue exposes the ways in which much postmodern American literature
privileges a typically Eurocentric, male-oriented type of
subjectivity, often at the expense of victimizing or objectifying
the ethnic or gendered Other. In contrast to the dominant white
male perspective on postmodernism, Hogue points to African
American, American Indian, and women authors within the American
postmodern canon--Rikki Ducornet, Kathy Acker, Ishmael Reed, and
Gerald Vizenor--who work against these structures of stereotype and
bias, resulting in a literary postmodernism that more genuinely
respects and represents difference.
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