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Table of contents
I. Introductory Essays
1.1 The Debate on Postmodernism3 1.2 The Semiotics of Literacy Postmodernism15 1.3 The Inscription of Postmodenism in Poetry43 1.4 The Politics of Postmodernism after the Wall51 1.5 Rethinking the Postmodernity of the Discourse of postmodernism65 1.6 Postmodernity as a Philosophical Concept75 1.7 The Concept of Postmodernism from a Philosophical Point of View 1.8 The Sociology of Postmodernity103 II. Postmodernism in the Other Arts
2.0 Introductory Note121
2.1 Post-modern Architecture and Time Fusion123 2.2 Postmodernism and Theatrical Performance129 2.3 Postmodernism and Film141 2.5 On Postmodernism in Music157 2.6 Postmodernism and the Visual Arts167 III. Renovations and Innovations in Postmodernist Writing
3.0 Introductory Note177
3.1 Postmodernist Renovations of Narrative Genres
3.1.3 Historical Fiction: Utopia in History203 3.1.4 The Heimat Novel213 3.2 Other Strategies and Devices in Postmodernist Writing
3.2.3 Self-referentiality257 3.2.4 The Refutation of Truth Claims265 3.2.5 Nonteleological Narration273 3.2.6 Postmodernisms: From Fantastic to Magic Realist283 IV. The Reception and Processing of Postmodernism
4.0 Introductory Note297
4.1 An Arkeology of (My) Canadian Postmodern307 4.2 Latin America
4.2.1. Postmodernism in Spanish-American Writing315 4.2.2. Postmodernism in Brazil327 4.3 Western and Southern Europe
4.3.1. Postmodernism in the United Kingdom and the republic of Ireland337 4.3.2. Postmodernism in France353 4.3.3. Postmodernism in the German- and Dutch- Speaking Countries359 4.3.4. Postmodernism in Scandinavia375 4.3.5. Postmodernism in Finland383 4.3.6. Postmodernism in Italy387 4.3.7. Postmodernity and Literture in Spain397 4.3.8.Postmodernism in Portugal405 4.4. Central and Eastern Europe
4.4.1. Postmodernism in Slovak Literature413 4.4.2. Postmodernism in Czech Literature419 4.4.3. Postmodernism in Poland423 4.4.4. Postmodern Literature in Hungary429 4.4.5. Romanian Postmodernism: The Politics of Poetics435 4.4.6. Postmodernism in the Literatures of Former Yugoslavia441 4.4.7. Postmodernism in Post-Soviet Latvia447 4.4.8. Postmodernism in Russia451 4.5 africa
4.5.1. Postmodernism in African Literature in English463 4.5.2. Postmodernism and African Francophone Literature469 4.5.3. Modernism and Postmodernism in African Literatute in Portuguese477 4.5.4. South Africa: Postmodernism in Afrikaans and English Literature483 4.6. Facets of postmodernism: A Search for Roots. The Indian Literacy Scene491 4.7. The Reception of Postmodernism in China: The Case of Avant-Garde Fiction499 4.8. Postmodernism in Japan511 Contributors517
Bibliography of secondary Sources523
Subject Index553
Index of Names558
