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Contents Preface 1 Post-modernism- An IntroductionMK Bhatnagar 2 The Genealogy of Post-modernismMohit K Ray 3 Post-modern Fiction and Iris Murdoch An overviewUrmila Chakraborty 4 Mark Twain and Post-modernism-A Connecticut Yankee As Historiographic MetafictionAH Tak 5 Greene?s The Captain and the enemy A Post-modern perspectiveRama Kundu 6 To be and to choose Ken Keseys sometimes a great notionP Shailaja 7 Deconstructing History A Study of Mhasweta?s Imaginary MapsA Jaganmohana Chari 8 Possible Stories and Multiple Endings Rukun Advani?s Beethoven among the cows as an open-ended NarrativeK Damodar Rao 9 Centres and Margins Shames other nationSyed Mujeebuddin 10 The Moors last sigh Creativity and controversyPradeep Trikha 11 Fiction as Philosophy Subversive Strategies in Shivarama Karanth?s Mookajji?s VisionsM Rajeshwar 12 Matriarchal Dominance in Toni Morrison?s SulaMonika GuptaPost-modernism with its self-contradictory implications its self-conscious deployment of trickery playfulness and unexplained supernaturalism its questioning of universal truths and its penchant for apocalyptic content and subversive strategies seems too heady a brew for readers to enjoy The present volume isolates the key concepts of post-modernism through illustrations form the works of John Fowles Thomas Pynchon William golding Salman Rushdie Vladimir Nabokov Samuel Beckett James Joyce Malcolm Lowry Iris Murdoch Gbrel Garcia Marquiz Mario Vargas Llosa and Isabel Allende These concepts are then placed in a theoretical framework with reference to critics and thinkers ranging from Roland Barthes Alain Robbe-Frillet Terry Eagleton to the structuralists and the post-structuralistsIn addition the volume incorporates incisive articles from this critical perspective analysing the novels of writers ranging from Iris Murdoch Mark Twain Graham Greene Ken Kesey Salman Rushdie and Mahasweta Devi to Rukun Advani Jacket 144 pp.