Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-223) and index.
Introduction : the postmodern, the marginal, and the minor -- Signification, movement, and resistance in the novels of Nathanael West -- Anaïs Nin, Djuna Barnes, and the critical feminist unconscious -- Gwendolyn Brooks and the vicissitudes of black female subjectivity -- "To become one and yet many" : psychic fragmentation and aesthetic synthesis in Ralph Ellison's Invisible man -- Postmodern narrative/biographical imperative -- Coda : categorical collapse and the possibility of "commitment."
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In this reassessment of postmodernism, the author contends that the fragmentation considered to be characteristic of the postmodern age can in fact be traced to the status of marginalized American and Afro-American writers of the 1930s to 1950s, such as West, Nin, Barnes, Allison and Brooks.
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Framing the margins.
American literature-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
Literature and society-- United States.
Postmodernism (Literature)-- United States.
Social problems in literature.
Littérature américaine-- 20e siècle-- Histoire et critique.