Introduction: Reading A Postmodern Reader
I Modern/Postmodern
Preface
"Postmodernity, or Living with Ambivalence." Zygmunt Ban
"The Postmodern Weltanschauung and its Relation to Modernism: an Introductory Survey." Hans Bertens
Excerpts from The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge Jean-Fran莽ois Lyotard
"Modernity versus Postmodernity." J眉rgen Habermas
"Mapping the Postmodern." Andreas Huyssen
"Modernism versus Postmodernism: Towards an Analytic Distinction." David J. Herman
II Representing the Postmodern
Preface
Excerpts from Postmodernism and its Critics John McGowan
"Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences." Jacques Derrida
"Beginning to Theorize Postmodernism." Linda Hutcheon
"Toward a Concept of Postmodernism." Ihab Hassan
"The Context of the Concept." Charles Russell
III Entanglements and Complicities
Preface
Excerpts from Postmodernism, Or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism Fredric Jameson
Excerpts from The History of Sexuality: Volume I: An Introduction Michel Foucault
"The Precession of Simulacra." Jean Baudrillard
"The Resolution of Revolutions." Thomas Kuhn
"Black Culture and Postmodernism." Cornel West
"From Here to Modernity: Feminism and Postmodernism." Barbara Creed
Excerpts from Thinking Fragments Jane Flax
"Modernism's Last Post." Stephen Slemon
IV Postmodern Practices
Preface
"Postmodernism as Border Pedagogy: Redefining the Boundaries of Race and Ethnicity." Henry Giroux
"Existentialism, Alienation, Postmodernism: Cultural Movements as Vehicles of Change in the Patterns of Everyday Life." Agnes Heller
"Postmodern Blackness." Bell Hooks
Excerpts from Dissident Postmodernists. Paul Maltby
"Hybridity, the Rap Race, and Pedagogy for the 1990s." Houston A. Baker, Jr
"Towards Cultural History." Catherine Belsey
Index