Rather than being a site as a whole that deals with postmodern fiction i have included a link to the essay by Kimberly Chabot Davis on which i quote from below and in my section on Toni Morrison. The essay is entitled "Postmodern blackness": Toni Morrison's 'Beloved' and the end of history. This essay is more specific with the postmodern issues of Beloved but as the majority of us have all studied this novel i felt that the postmodern devices that Davis suggests occurs within Beloved would make it easier to comprehend Postmodern Fiction and its issues. This essay suggests that key features of postmodernism within Beloved is postmodern history as 'Morrison's treatment of history bears some similarity to Hutcheon's postmodern historiographic metafiction,'despite Morrison attempting to write black topic texts. An interesting argument of Davies is that 'Andreas Huyssen, Kobena Mercer, and Linda Hutcheon have noted, racial liberation movements of the 1960s and 70s (as well as the feminist movement) contributed to the loosening of cultural boundaries that is seen as characteristically postmodern.' to contest claims that 'the lives of black people have nothing to do with postmodernism'. I found this essay an interesting intterogation of Beloved as a postmodern text as Beloved is considered postmodern and anti-postmodern with aptly demonstrates the complexity of determining whether a text is or is not postmodern. Also as this essay gave examples of postmodern devices within fiction in a novel i had studied i found it made it clearer to comprehand these devices and realise other works of fiction that have used them as well.
Born in 1931 in Ohio Morrison's original name was Chloe Anthony Wofford. Morrison has also worked as an editor for Random House, a critic, and given numerous public lectures, specializing in African-American literature. She won the nobel prize for literature in 1993. One of her most notable works of fiction is 'Beloved' (1987) in which she uses devices such as fictionality history, the blurring of past and present, and the questions the grand historical metanarratives according to an essay by Kimberly Chabot Davis. Davis believes Beloved is an example of postmodern blackness and is a hybrid of the vision of history and time that brings new light onto issues that Fredric Jameson and Linda Hutcheson on their own theories of postmodernism that are mentioned above.
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