Dialectic of Self and Story Lucia Mauro and a Professor at the

and a Professor at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and other academic institutions

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Dialectic of Self and Story Lucia Mauro and a Professor at theInformed by selected postmodern theories and cultural criticism, this study argues that while American fiction of the 1980s and 1990s bears the outward signs of a return to realism, it also evidences recurring themes of postmodernism, such as alienation, social disintegration, personal despair, historical dislocation, and authorial self reflexiveness.