Postmodern literature and race

Explores the question of how dramatic shifts in conceptions of race in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries have been addressed by writers at the cutting edge of equally dramatic transformations of literary form

Indhold: Critical histories: postcolonialism, postmodernism and race / Bill Ashcroft. Race and the crisis of the postmodern social novel / Madhu Dubey. Worlded localisms: cosmopolitics writ small / David James. X-ray detectives: Ishmael Reed, Clarence Major and black postmodern detective fiction / Bran Nicol. Performing identity: intertextuality, race and difference in the South Asian novel in English / Peter Morey. Performing race in Caryl Phillips's Dancing in the Dark / Abigail Ward. Appropriate appropriation?: Ishmael Reed's neo-hoodoo and Flannery O'Connor's artificial negroes / John N. Duvall. "How Scottish I am": Alasdair Gray, race and neo-nationalism / Len Platt. "Justabit racist": Dubravka Ugrešić, cosmopolitanism and the post-Yugoslav condition / Vedrana Velickovic. Postmodern prose and the discourse of the "cultural Jew": the cases of Mailer and Foer / David Witzling. Race, comedy and tourism: the hideous embarrassments of Will Self's The Butt / David Punter. White male nostalgia in Don DeLillo's Underworld / Tim Engles. Postmodern revisions of Englishness: Rushdie, Barnes, Ballard / Nick Bentley. The whiteness of David Foster Wallace / Samuel Cohen. After the first decade: revisiting the work of Zadie Smith / Philip Tew. Racial neoliberalism and whiteness in Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow / Sue J. Kim. "Some kind of black": black British historiographic metafictions and the postmodern politics of race / Sara Upstone