Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-220) and index.
Contents
Time, postmodern difference, and the possibility of politics -- Media messages: Don DeLillo's White noise -- Global technologies: Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon -- 9/11: Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely loud & incredibly close and Art Spiegelman's In the shadow of no towers -- Race: Nathaniel Mackey's From a broken bottle traces of perfume still emanate -- Gender: Leslie Scalapino's experimental poetry -- Borders: Dagoberto Gilb's The last known residence of Mickey Acuna -- Future, present, past.
