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Rethinking Postmodernism(s) revisits three historical sites of American literary postmodernism: the early postmodernism of Thomas Pynchon's V. (1961), the emancipatory postmodernism of Toni Morrison's Beloved (1987), and the late or post-postmodernism of Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything Is Illuminated (2002). For the first time, it confronts these texts with the pragmatist philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce, staging a conceptual dialogue between pragmatism and postmodernism that historicizes and recontextualizes customary readings of postmodern fiction. The book is a must-read for all interested in current reassessments of literary postmodernism, in new critical dialogues between seminal postmodern texts, and in recent attempts to theorize the ‘post-postmodern' moment...Back cover.

Pynchon, Thomas --- Peirce, Charles Sanders --- Foer, Jonathan Safran --- Morrison, Toni --- American fiction --- Postmodernism (Literature) --- Pragmatism. --- History and criticism. --- Peirce, Charles S. --- Pynchon, Thomas. --- Morrison, Toni. --- Foer, Jonathan Safran, --- 82.015.9 --- Literaire stromingen: postmodernisme --- 82.015.9 Literaire stromingen: postmodernisme --- United States --- Foer, Jonathan --- Criticism and interpretation --- 20th century --- History and criticism --- Postmodernisme et littérature --- Littérature américaine --- États-Unis --- 20e siècle --- Histoire et critique --- Postmodernisme et littérature --- Littérature américaine --- États-Unis --- 20e siècle