The postmodern short story : forms and issues

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction by Farhat IftekharuddinFictional Nonfiction And Nonfictional FictionPlaying It Straight by Making It Up: Imaginative Leaps in the Personal Essay by Marilyn AbildskovFacts and Fancy: The "Nonfiction Short Story" by Michele MoranoHistoriografiction: The Fictionalization of History in the Short Story by Michael OrlofskyWomen's Identity in the Postmodern WorldClosure in Sandra Cisneros's "Woman Hollering Creek" by Rose Marie CuttingThe Silence of the Bears: Leslie Marmon Silko's Writerly Act of Spiritual Storytelling by Brewster E. FitzThe Feminine Consciousness as Nightmare in the Short-Short Stories of Joyce Carol Oates by Wayne StengelPostmodernism in Women's Short Story Cycles: Lorrie Moore's Anagrams by Karen WeekesContemporary Men and Their StoriesCrippled by the Truth: Oracular Pronouncements, Titillating Titles, and the Postmodern Ethic by Richard LeeMale Paradigms in Thom Jones and Tom Paine by Paul R. LillyEloquence and Plot in Denis Johnson's Jesus' Son: The Merging of Premodern and Modernist Narrative by J. Scott FarrinArdor with a Silent H: Submitting to the Ache of Love in Edmund White's "Skinned Alive" by Raymond FrontainThe Genre Which Is Not One: Hemingway's In Our Time, Difference, and the Short Story Cycle by Peter DonahueDeath As Image And Theme In Short FictionShort Stories to Film: Richard Ford's "Great Falls" and "Children" as Bright Angel by Larry D. GriffinMelancholia and the Death Motif in Richard Brautigan's Short Fiction by Brenda M. PaloPerhaps She Had Not Told Him All the Story: The Disnarrated in James Joyce's Dubliners by Howard LindhomPostmodern Narrative Around The WorldMultiple Narrative Frames in R. R. R. Dhlomo's "Juwawa" by Christine LoflinBeyond Genre: Canadian Surrealist Short Fiction by Allan WeissPostmodernism in the American Short Story: Some General Observations and Some Specific Cases by Harold KaylorSelected BibliographyIndexAbout the Editors and Contributors