The book analyzes Ishmael Reed Mumbo Jumbo], Kathy Acker The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec by Henri Toulouse Lautrec], and Don Delillo White Noise], three authors whom critics cite as quintessentially postmodern. For these critics such works possess formal narrative and/or content qualities at odds with modernism. In particular, according to influential thinkers like Fredric Jameson, postmodern works possess narrative form and/or content which eschews reality, and embody a fundamental paradigm shift from the politically committed ideology of modernity...