Dissident postmodernists

"Critics who hold that postmodernist art is essentially non-adversarial and apolitical, Paul Maltby contends, have ignored the historical context of the postmodern focus on problems of language. In Dissident Postmodernists, Maltby examines a major current of postmodernist fiction that can be read as a dissident response to developments of late capitalism that have transformed the field of language and communications." "Among Maltby's models of dissident postmodernist writing are Gravity's Rainbow, The Public Burning, Snow White, and more recent publications like Vineland and Spanking the…