This "if anything," says Huyssen, "is the postmodern condition in literature and the arts" (ix). With the borders down, it would seem that SF critics need no longer offer an "apologia" for their work, ...

Larry McCaffery, in his collection of interviews with SF writers, also reviewed in this issue, argues that SF has become the pre-eminent literary genre of the postmodern era, since it alone has the ...

The relationship of narrative forms to race, gender, and class/capitalism; cognitive cultural studies; studies of affect (particularly anger and empathy) in late capitalism; postmodern literature and ...

John Barth, a novelist who crafted labyrinthine, fantastical tales that were at once bawdy and philosophical, placing him on ...

Robert Coover, who turned fairy tales, folk stories and other conventions of literature on their head in a career that made him one of the most noted writers in postmodern American letters ...

In addition to individual authors, subjects examined have included problematics of literary genres, boundaries between fictional and non-fictional texts, problematics of intertextuality, as well as ...

Yibing Huang's research and teaching interests cover a broad range, including modern and contemporary Chinese literature, art and culture; comparative studies of modernism and postmodernism in China ...

His areas of specialization include the literature of war and of the Cold War era, postmodernism, modern drama, and horror and science-fiction. He has published articles on James Joyce, Fay Weldon, ...