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The Postmodern Short Story Forms and Issues
Farhat Iftekharrudin, Joseph Boyden, Mary Rohrberger, Jaie Claudet
Under the Auspices of the Society for the Study of the Short Story
Book Code: GM2375
ISBN: 0-313-32375-5
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-32375-1
296 pages, figure
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 12/30/2003
List Price: $78.95 (UK Sterling Price: £44.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects:
Series Title: Contributions to the Study of World Literature
Series Number: 124
Reviews:
  • Sound theoretical work on contemporary short fiction is all too rare. Put together under the auspices of the Society for the Study of the Short Story, this collection helps provide a welcome corrective....A fact of academic life is that short stories are primary ingredients of most introductory and survey courses; we need more studies like this to help explore them. Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty.
    —Choice     September 2004
Description: Short stories are usually defined in terms of characteristics of modernism, in which the story begins in the middle, develops according to a truncated plot, and ends with an epiphany. This approach tends to ignore postmodernism, a movement often characterized by a negation of objective reality where plots are seemingly abandoned, surfaces are extraordinary, and symbols turn inward on themselves. This book examines postmodern forms and characteristic themes by analyzing a group of short stories that make use of postmodern narrative strategies, including nonfictional fiction, gender profiling, and death as an image. The volume begins with a discussion of the blurred lines between fiction and nonfiction in the short story and imaginative personal essay. It then looks at the role of women in works by such authors as Sandra Cisneros, Leslie Marmon Silko, Joyce Carol Oates, and Lorrie Moore. This is followed by a section of chapters on postmodern masculinity and short fiction. The next section focuses on death as an image and theme in works by Richard Ford, Richard Brautigan, and James Joyce. The final set of chapters considers postmodern short fiction from South Africa and Canada.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction by Farhat Iftekharuddin
  • Fictional Nonfiction And Nonfictional Fiction
  • Playing It Straight by Making It Up: Imaginative Leaps in the Personal Essay by Marilyn Abildskov
  • Facts and Fancy: The "Nonfiction Short Story" by Michele Morano
  • Historiografiction: The Fictionalization of History in the Short Story by Michael Orlofsky
  • Women's Identity in the Postmodern World
  • Closure in Sandra Cisneros's "Woman Hollering Creek" by Rose Marie Cutting
  • The Silence of the Bears: Leslie Marmon Silko's Writerly Act of Spiritual Storytelling by Brewster E. Fitz
  • The Feminine Consciousness as Nightmare in the Short-Short Stories of Joyce Carol Oates by Wayne Stengel
  • Postmodernism in Women's Short Story Cycles: Lorrie Moore's Anagrams by Karen Weekes
  • Contemporary Men and Their Stories
  • Crippled by the Truth: Oracular Pronouncements, Titillating Titles, and the Postmodern Ethic by Richard Lee
  • Male Paradigms in Thom Jones and Tom Paine by Paul R. Lilly
  • Eloquence and Plot in Denis Johnson's Jesus' Son: The Merging of Premodern and Modernist Narrative by J. Scott Farrin
  • Ardor with a Silent H: Submitting to the Ache of Love in Edmund White's "Skinned Alive" by Raymond Frontain
  • The Genre Which Is Not One: Hemingway's In Our Time, Difference, and the Short Story Cycle by Peter Donahue
  • Death As Image And Theme In Short Fiction
  • Short Stories to Film: Richard Ford's "Great Falls" and "Children" as Bright Angel by Larry D. Griffin
  • Melancholia and the Death Motif in Richard Brautigan's Short Fiction by Brenda M. Palo
  • Perhaps She Had Not Told Him All the Story: The Disnarrated in James Joyce's Dubliners by Howard Lindhom
  • Postmodern Narrative Around The World
  • Multiple Narrative Frames in R. R. R. Dhlomo's "Juwawa" by Christine Loflin
  • Beyond Genre: Canadian Surrealist Short Fiction by Allan Weiss
  • Postmodernism in the American Short Story: Some General Observations and Some Specific Cases by Harold Kaylor
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Editors and Contributors
LC Card Number: 2003054722
LCC Class: PN3373
Dewey Class: 809
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