Abstract

Taking Jennifer Egan’s novel Look at Me (2001) as an exemplary case study, this article explores what it means for contemporary writers to “begin with postmodernism” in responding to post-60s US culture and society. The argument brings together two recent developments in literary culture: the historicist and revisionist turn taken by scholarship on literary postmodernism, and the direct engagement by younger US fiction writers with the historical genealogy of the postmodern era.

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