本书以伊什梅尔·里德的戏仿艺术为研究重点，依据后现代主义理论、当代黑人文学批评理论以及文化研究的相关成果，从功能研究角度探讨里德对西方小说传统的戏仿性改写技巧和他对该传统的认识论的解构。全书以里德对西部小说、侦探小说、奴隶叙述和学院小说的改写文本为分析样本，论证里德对突破小说创作传统的追求：里德的后现代主义戏仿艺术既质疑文学再现形式，又高度关注与边缘文化、特别是非裔群体密切相关的历史、政治、文化等问题，丰富了小说创作的内涵。

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前言

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

 A. Ishmael Reed and the Literary Tokenism

 B. Ishmael Reed and His Works

 C. Ishmael Reed and His Critics

 D. Reed Study in China and the Framework Of the Present Study

Chapter 1 Satire's Edge: Ishmael Reed and the Postmodernist Parody

 A. Postmodemist Parody as Pastiche--Reedian Parody in Fredric Jameson's Model

  1. Pastiche,Schizophrenia and the Loss of Historicity

  2. Simulacra, Historical Fiction and Crisis in Historicity

  3. Reification, Bricolage, and the Random Play of Signifiers

  4. Pastiche and Textual Play in Ishmael Reed's Fiction

 B. Postmodemist Parody as "Double-Coded" Paradox-- Reedian Parody in Linda Hutcheon's Model

  1. A Poetics of Paradox and the Representation of History

  2. Historiographic Metafiction and the Problematization of History

  3. Postmodernist Parody and Its Double-Coded Politics

  4. Parody and Cultural Critique in Ishmael Reed's Fiction

 C. Towards a Pluralizing Interpretation of Postmodernist Parody

Chapter 2 The Black Cowboy in the Marlboro World:Ishmael Reed's Parody of the American Western

 A. Generic Conventions of the American Western

 B. Parodic Transgressions in Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down

  1. Narrative Innovation and Cultural Rewriting

  2. The Apocryphal History and the Triumph of Voodoo

Chapter 3 The Voodoo Houngan on the Case:Ishmael Reed's Parody of the Detective Fiction

 A. Detective Fiction and Its Generic Conventions

 B. Detective Fiction and the Postmodernist Proliferation of the Anti-Detective Fiction

 C. Detective Fiction and Its Revision by the African American Novelists

 D. Mumbo Jumbo as a Text of Black Anti-Detective Fiction

  1. The Elusive Mystery, the Missing Text and the Cultural Connotation of the Crime

  2. The HooDoo Trickster Detective Persona and His Metaphysical Detection of History

  3. The "Amphibious" Text and the "Game" of Decoding

Chapter 4 The Black Raven in the South: Ishmael Reed's Revision of the Slave Narrative

 A. The Slave Narrative and Its Paradigmatic Gestures

 B. The Slave Narrative and Its Contemporary Revision-- the Neo-Slave Narrative

 C. Flight to Canada and Its Revision of the Slave Narrative

  1. Parodic Revision and Reed's Rewriting of Antebellum History

  2. Character Reversal and Reed's Reexamination of the Dynamics of Slavery and Freedom

  3. Non - literary References and Reed's Critique of Cultural Misappropriation

Chapter 5 The Black Junior Professor Amidst the Cultural Wars:Ishmael Reed's Parody of the Academic Fiction

 A. Academic Fiction and Its Satire of the Ivory Tower

 B. The Muhicuhural Movement and the American Cultural Wars 

 C. Japanese by Spring and the American Cultural Wars

  1. Jack London College and the Malaise of Muhiculturalism

  2. Cipher Characters and the Monocultural Factions in Jack London College 

  3. Jazz Inspired Plot Improvisation and Reed's Critique of Monoculturalism

  4. The Authorial Intrusion and Reed's Vision of Muhiculturalism

Conclusion

Works Cited

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