Preface: reading postmodern fiction
Introduction: postmodernism and postmodernity
Postmodern fiction: theory and practice
Early postmodern fiction: Beckett, Borges, and Burroughs
US metafiction: Coover, Barth, Nabokov, Vonnegut, Pynchon
The postmodern historical novel: Fowles, Barnes, Swift
Postmodern-postcolonial fiction
Postmodern fiction by women: Carter, Atwood, Acker
Two postmodern genres: cyberpunk and 'metaphysical' detective fiction
Fiction of the 'postmodern condition': Ballard, DeLillo, Ellis.
The Cambridge introduction to postmodern fiction by Bran Nicol. ISBN 9780521679572. Published by Cambridge University Press in 2009. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.