Abstract
Postmodernism is a fact of everyday life. We live in a world of uncertainty, of lapses in-if not absence of-authority, of fragmentation, of visual and auditory overload, of the blurring of lines between mass culture and elite culture. Such features have found their way into contemporary literature and particularly into the literature labeled postmodern. Its leading writers date from the 1960s and, while predominantly white males, are not the canonical giants of our American literature classes. The postmodern camp is inhabited by such writers as William Burroughs, Robert Coover, John Barth, Thomas Pynchon, Donald Barthelme, and African American writer Ishmael Reed. Most of the works of these writers are too
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