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Narrative Innovation and Cultural Rewriting in the Cold War Era and After
Marcel Cornis-Pope
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Narrative Innovation and Cultural Rewriting undertakes a systematic study of postmodernism's responses to the polarized ideologies of the postwar period that have held cultures hostage to a confrontation between rival ideologies abroad and a clash between champions of uniformity and disruptive others at home. Considering a broad range of narrative projects and approaches (from polysystemic fiction to surfiction, postmodern feminism, and multicultural/postcolonial fiction), this book highlights their solutions to ontological division (real vs. imaginary, wordly and other-worldly), sociocultural oppositions (of race, class, gender) and narratological dualities (imitation vs. invention, realism vs. formalism). A thorough rereading of the best experimental work ... Read more
Narrative Innovation and Cultural Rewriting undertakes a systematic study of postmodernism's responses to the polarized ideologies of the postwar period that have held cultures hostage to a confrontation between rival ideologies abroad and a clash between champions of uniformity and disruptive others at home. Considering a broad range of narrative projects and approaches (from polysystemic fiction to surfiction, postmodern feminism, and multicultural/postcolonial fiction), this book highlights their solutions to ontological division (real vs. imaginary, wordly and other-worldly), sociocultural oppositions (of race, class, gender) and narratological dualities (imitation vs. invention, realism vs. formalism). A thorough rereading of the best experimental work ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Number of Pages
318
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9780312238377
SKU
V9780312238377
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About Marcel Cornis-Pope
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).
Reviews for Narrative Innovation and Cultural Rewriting in the Cold War Era and After
"... 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 ... Read more