The Bloomsbury Introduction to Postmodern Realist Fiction: Resisting Master Narratives - Hardcover

by T. V. Reed (Author)

Postmodern realist fiction uses realism-disrupting literary techniques to make interventions into the real social conditions of our time. It seeks to capture the complex, fragmented nature of contemporary experience while addressing crucial issues like income inequality, immigration, the climate crisis, terrorism, ever-changing technologies, shifting racial, sex and gender roles, and the rise of new forms of authoritarianism. A lucid, comprehensive introduction to the genre as well as to a wide variety of voices, this book discusses more than forty writers from a diverse range of backgrounds, and over several decades, with special attention to 21st-century novels.

Author Biography

T.V. Reed is Buchanan Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Washington State University, USA. His recent books include The Art of Protest: Culture and Activism from the Civil Rights Movement to the Present (2019) and Digitized Lives: Culture, Power and Social Change in the Internet Era (2019). Reed also curates the web matrix culturalpolitics.net.