After Yesterday's Crash: The Avant-Pop Anthology

by Larry McCaffery

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Some of the hottest writers of the 90's shared a subversive aesthetic sensibility, "avant-pop," that drew on the forms, images, slogans, characters, and narrative archetypes of our multidimensional, information-dense culture--cartoons, films, music videos, advertising, and rock music--to explore and critically examine that culture.   Each of these thirty-two works delves into the deeper metaphorical implications of this pop cultural imagery to convey a turn toward overstimulation and show more hyper-consumption in American life, and to explore issues of personality and identity. This provocative, stylistically experimental work is truly literature for the twenty-first century. show less

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Larry McCaffery
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Amerika, Mark (Contributor)
Auster, Paul (Contributor)
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Blair, David (Contributor)
Conquest, Norman (Illustrator)
Coover, Robert (Contributor)
Cruz, Ricardo Cortez (Contributor)
Daitch, Susan (Contributor)
Delillo, Don (Contributor)
Ducornet, Rikki (Contributor)
Ellis, Bret Easton (Contributor)
Erickson, Steve (Contributor)
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Fairbanks, Lauren (Contributor)
Federman, Raymond (Contributor)
Gibson, William (Contributor)
Gomez-Pena, Guillermo (Contributor)
Jaffe, Harold (Contributor)
Katz, Steve (Contributor)
Laidlaw, Marc (Contributor)
Leyner, Mark (Contributor)
Marcus, Ben (Contributor)
Padawer, Craig (Contributor)
Pell, Derek (Contributor)
Robbins, Tom (Contributor)
Sterling. Bruce (Contributor)
Sukenick, Ronald (Contributor)
Tillman, Lynne (Contributor)
Vizenor, Gerald (Contributor)
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Walace, David Foster (Contributor)
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Fiction and Literature
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813 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English
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PS536.2 .A35 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Collections of American literature By period
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