Machine generated contents note: 1. Critical histories: postcolonialism, postmodernism and race Bill Ashcroft; 2. Race and the crisis of the postmodern social novel Madhu Dubey; 3. Worlded localisms: cosmopolitics writ small David James; 4. Yellows, blacks, blues: the seductions of (black) postmodern detective fiction Bran Nicol; 5. Performing identity: intertextuality, race and difference in the South Asian novel in English Peter Morey; 6. Performing race in Caryl Phillips's Dancing in the Dark Abigail Ward; 7. Appropriate appropriation?: Ishmael Reed's hoodoo and Flannery O'Connor's artificial negroes John N. Duvall; 8. 'How Scottish I am': Alasdair Gray, race and neo-nationalism Len Platt; 9. 'Justabit fascist': Dubravka Ugrešić, cosmopolitanism and the post-Yugoslav condition Vedrana Velickovic; 10. Postmodern prose and the discourse of the 'cultural Jew': the cases of Mailer and Foer David Witzling; 11. Race, comedy and tourism: the hideous embarrassments of Will Self's The Butt David Punter; 12. White male nostalgia in Don DeLillo's Underworld Tim Engles; 13. Postmodern revisions of Englishness: Rushdie, Barnes, Ballard Nick Bentley; 14. The whiteness of David Foster Wallace Samuel Cohen; 15. After the first decade: revisiting the work of Zadie Smith Philip Tew; 16. Racial neoliberalism and whiteness in Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow Sue J. Kim; 17. 'Some kind of black': black British historiographic metafictions and the postmodern politics of race Sara Upstone.
Postmodern literature and race. ISBN 9781107042483. Published by Cambridge University Press in 2015. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.