Abstract
This chapter looks at postmodern and contemporary novels, including works by Jeanette Winterson, Ali Smith, Sara Paretsky, Attica Locke, Thomas Pynchon, John Barth, Robert Coover, Kathy Acker, William Gibson, Octavia Butler, Russell Hoban, Toni Morrison, Ishmael Reed and Lauren Oyler. Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow, together with a sampling both of science fiction novels and black meta-fiction novels, are used in the chapter to focus the ways by which important recent critics of postmodernism (or postmodernity) have defined and applied the term, though all share the sense that it refers to a crisis (or crises) of representation and develops as well as critiques modernism. The critics excerpted include David Cowart, Mark Currie, Henry Louis Gates, Daniel Grausam, Linda Hutcheon, Fredric Jameson, Brian McHale and Fred Moten.
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