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Authors: LAURA WALKER SAVU.
Available online: 20 September 2022; Available print: 30 September 2022
pp. 399-402
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T.V. Reed, the Lewis E. and Stella G. Buchanan Distinguished Professor of English and American Studies at Washington State University, opens his wide-ranging survey of “postmodern realist fiction” with an intriguing statement: “There is no such thing as postmodern fiction.” This is because postmodernism is “not one agreed-upon thing” (15), but rather “a notoriously slippery category,” “a global phenomenon, with writers hailing from all continents,” except for Antarctica (1), and according to its first major theorist, Jean-François Lyotard, “a recurring historical phenomenon,” arising “whenever segments of a culture develop an intense self-consciousness about language as a force in creating the world” (5).
