The Cambridge History of Postmodern Literature - Title page

pp iii-iii

Copyright page

pp iv-iv

Contents

pp v-vii

Contributors

pp viii-xiv

General introduction

pp 1-14

Part I - Postmodernism before postmodernity?

pp 15-82

Introduction: postmodernism – rupture, tradition, historical reason?

pp 17-24

1 - Postmodernism and its precursors

pp 25-38

2 - After the Holocaust

pp 39-51

3 - Empire’s ebb

pp 52-66

4 - Cold War culture at the mid-century

pp 67-82

Part II - The long sixties, 1954–1975

pp 83-172

Introduction: on or about the year 1966

pp 85-94

5 - Mass mediation

pp 95-111

6 - Countercultures

pp 112-126

7 - New novels: from the 1950s to 1970

pp 127-142

8 - The Latin American boom and the invention of magic realism

pp 143-158

9 - Rise of theory

pp 159-172

Part III - The major phase: peak postmodernism, 1973–1991

pp 173-396

Introduction: branding

pp 175-184

10 - The architectural paradigm

pp 185-198

11 - The dematerialization of the art object – a conversation

pp 199-213

12 - The New Hollywood cinema and after

pp 214-229

13 - Second-wave feminism and after

pp 230-246

14 - Gay and lesbian subcultures from Stonewall to Angels in America

pp 247-261

15 - The “post” in postcolonial

pp 262-277

16 - Celtic postmodernism – Scotland and the breakup of Britain

pp 278-292

17 - Historiographic metafiction

pp 293-307

18 - High and low, or Avant-Pop

pp 308-323