This "if anything," says Huyssen, "is the postmodern condition in literature and the arts" (ix). With the borders down, it would seem that SF critics need no longer offer an "apologia" for their work, ...

From the late 1980s onwards, novelists, artists, critics and art historians have foreseen the death of postmodernism. Linda Hutcheon, in the second edition of The Politics of Postmodernism (2002), ...

Larry McCaffery, in his collection of interviews with SF writers, also reviewed in this issue, argues that SF has become the pre-eminent literary genre of the postmodern era, since it alone has the ...

2Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, Manchester University Press, 1984, p. 45. 3Paul de Man, ‘Literary History and Literary Modernity’, in Blindness and Insight, ...

The relationship of narrative forms to race, gender, and class/capitalism; cognitive cultural studies; studies of affect (particularly anger and empathy) in late capitalism; postmodern literature and ...

Robert Coover, who turned fairy tales, folk stories and other conventions of literature on their head in a career that made him one of the most noted writers in postmodern American letters ...