John N. Duvall is Associate Professor of English at Purdue University and the author of The Identifying Fictions of Toni Morrison: Modernist Authenticity and Postmodern Blackness and Faulkner's Marginal Couple: Invisible, Outlaw, and Unspeakable Communities.

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Preface

1. Troping History: Modernist Residue in Jameson's Pastiche and Hutcheon's Parody
John N. Duvall

2. Postmodernism and History: Complicitous Critique and the Political Unconscious
Thomas Carmichael

Postmodernism, Fiction, History

3. A Mother (and a Son, and a Brother, and a Wife, et al.) in History: Stories Galore in Libra and the Warren Commission Report
Stacey Olster

4. Donald Barthelme and the President of the United States
Michael Zeitlin

5. ¿Postmodern Blackness¿: Toni Morrison's Beloved and the End of History
Kimberly Chabot Davis

6. Historiographic Metafiction and the Celebration of Differences: Ishmael Reed's Mumbo Jumbo
W. Lawrence Hogue

7. Troping the Renaissance: Postmodern Historiography and Early Modern History
Paul Budra

Postmodernism, Architecture, History

8. Los Angeles, 2019: Two Tales of a City
Kevin R. McNamara

9. Postmodern Casinos
Shelton Waldrep

10. Postmodernism and Holocaust Memory: Productive Tensions in the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
Nancy J. Peterson

Afterword: ¿Acting from the Midst of Identities¿: Questions from Linda Hutcheon

Works Cited

Contributors

Index