Acknowledgments<BR>

Introduction by Farhat Iftekharuddin<BR>

Fictional Nonfiction And Nonfictional Fiction<BR>

Playing It Straight by Making It Up: Imaginative Leaps in the Personal Essay by Marilyn Abildskov<BR>

Facts and Fancy: The "Nonfiction Short Story" by Michele Morano<BR>

Historiografiction: The Fictionalization of History in the Short Story by Michael Orlofsky<BR>

Women's Identity in the Postmodern World<BR>

Closure in Sandra Cisneros's "Woman Hollering Creek" by Rose Marie Cutting<BR>

The Silence of the Bears: Leslie Marmon Silko's Writerly Act of Spiritual Storytelling by Brewster E. Fitz<BR>

The Feminine Consciousness as Nightmare in the Short-Short Stories of Joyce Carol Oates by Wayne Stengel<BR>

Postmodernism in Women's Short Story Cycles: Lorrie Moore's Anagrams by Karen Weekes<BR>

Contemporary Men and Their Stories<BR>

Crippled by the Truth: Oracular Pronouncements, Titillating Titles, and the Postmodern Ethic by Richard Lee<BR>

Male Paradigms in Thom Jones and Tom Paine by Paul R. Lilly<BR>

Eloquence and Plot in Denis Johnson's Jesus' Son: The Merging of Premodern and Modernist Narrative by J. Scott Farrin<BR>

Ardor with a Silent H: Submitting to the Ache of Love in Edmund White's "Skinned Alive" by Raymond Frontain<BR>

The Genre Which Is Not One: Hemingway's In Our Time, Difference, and the Short Story Cycle by Peter Donahue<BR>

Death As Image And Theme In Short Fiction<BR>

Short Stories to Film: Richard Ford's "Great Falls" and "Children" as Bright Angel by Larry D. Griffin<BR>

Melancholia and the Death Motif in Richard Brautigan's Short Fiction by Brenda M. Palo<BR>

Perhaps She Had Not Told Him All the Story: The Disnarrated in James Joyce's Dubliners by Howard Lindhom<BR>

Postmodern Narrative Around The World<BR>

Multiple Narrative Frames in R. R. R. Dhlomo's "Juwawa" by Christine Loflin<BR>

Beyond Genre: Canadian Surrealist Short Fiction by Allan Weiss<BR>

Postmodernism in the American Short Story: Some General Observations and Some Specific Cases by Harold Kaylor<BR>

Selected Bibliography<BR>

Index<BR>

About the Editors and Contributors