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Postmodern American literature and its other: the Euro-American male, woman, the African American, the American Indian, the poor, and the global periphery. The privileged, sovereign, Euro-American (male), post/modern subject and its construction of the other: Thomas Pynchon's V. and Paul Auster's The New York trilogy. Constructing woman as subject: Rikki Ducornet's The jade cabinet and Kathy Acker's Pussy, king of the pirates. Signifying planetary postmodernity: Ishamel Reed's Mumbo jumbo and Gerald Vizenor's The heirs of Columbus |