Playing with Expectations

Playing with Expectations: Postmodern Narrative Choices and the African American Novel explores a merging of works by African American novelists to promote critical acceptance of postmodern literature and advance the legitimacy and usefulness of postmodern literary techniques.

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Preston Park Cooper received his PhD in literature from Kent State University. He currently teaches English at Austin Community College. He wrote two chapters in Cross-Cultural Visions in African American Literature: West Meets East (2011), one of which he presented as a paper at the 2007 MLA conference: «`A Beautiful Black Butterfly : Eastern Aesthetics and Postmodernism in Ishmael Reed s Japanese by Spring.» He has also written book reviews for the African American Review.

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Contents: Lyotard and Metanarratives Reed, Johnson, Morrison, Whitehead, and Metanarratives African American Literature, Culture, and Metanarratives Teun A. van Dijk's Elite Discourse and Racism Discourse and Racist Metanarratives Lyotard and The Postmodern Condition Postmodern Theory, Postmodern Strategies Ishmael Reed, Mumbo Jumbo, and Experiments with Style Mumbo Jumbo and Expectations of Time and Genre Fiction vs. Nonfiction, Fiction vs. Reality Japanese by Spring Defiance of Expectations in Japanese by Spring and Yellow-Back Radio Broke Down Flight to Canada's Postmodern Exposure of Slavery Issues of African American Identity in Regard to Writing and Rewriting Middle Passage's Postmodern Play with Modes of Discourse Race, Literature, and Johnson Dreamer: A Novel Doubling and the Constructedness of Narratives Appropriation of Authorial Identity, Including Johnson's Own Toni Morrison: Beloved, Paradise, Song of Solomon, The Bluest Eye, Jazz **Colson Whitehead: The Intuitionist's Mysterious Narration Vagary as the Author's Tool A New Metaphor for Inhumanity Intuitionism, Sight, and Invisibility The Perfect Elevator/Novel John Henry Days The Atypical Vignettes Whitehead and Comic Books John Henry Days and the Power of Pop Whitehead and Recursive America.