This collection of essays offers an authoritative examination and appraisal of the French-American novelist Raymond Federman’s many contributions to humanities scholarship, including Holocaust studies, Beckett studies, translation studies, experimental fiction, postmodernism, and autobiography. Although known primarily as a novelist, Federman (1928–2009) is also the author of numerous books of poetry, essays, translations, and criticism. After emigrating to the United States in 1942 and receiving a Ph.D. in comparative literature at UCLA in 1957, he held professorships in the University at Buffalo’s departments of French and English from 1964 to 1999. Together with Steve Katz and Ronald Sukenick, he was one of the original founders of the Fiction Collective, a nonprofit publishing house dedicated to avant garde, experimental prose. Far too many accounts treat Federman as merely a member of a small group of writers who pioneered ‘metafictional’ or ‘postmodern’ American literature. Federman’s Fiction will introduce (or, for some, reintroduce) to the broader scholarly community a creative and daring thinker whose work is significant not just to considerations of the development of innovative fiction, but to a number of other distinct disciplines and emerging critical discourses.
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Preface
Some Answers for Raymond Federman
Charles Bernstein
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Other Voices: The Fiction of Raymond Federman
Jeffrey R. Di Leo
Part I. A Life in the Text
1. Beckett and Beyond: Federman the Scholar
Jerome Klinkowitz
2. How, and How Not, to Be a Published Novelist: The Case of Raymond Federman
Ted Pelton
3. Samuel Beckett and Raymond Federman: A Bilingual Companionship
Daniela Hurezanu
4. Filling in the Blanks: Raymond Federman, Self-Translator
Alyson Waters
5. Re-Double or Nothing: Federman, Autobiography, and Creative Literary Criticism
Larry Mc Caffery
Part II. Philosophy of Literature
6. A Narrative Poetics of Raymond Federman
Brian Mc Hale
7. Surfiction, Not Sure Fiction: Raymond Federman’s Second-Degree Textual Manipulations
Davis Schneiderman
8. Raymond Federman, the Ultimate Metafictioneer
Eckhard Gerdes
9. Formulating Yet Another Paradox: Raymond Federman’s Real Fictitious Discourses
Thomas Hartl
10. The Agony of Unrecognition: Raymond Federman and Postmodern Theory
Eric Dean Rasmussen
11. Raymond Federman and Critical Theory
Jan Baetens
Part III. Laughter, History, and the Holocaust
12. Surviving in the Corridors of History or, History as Double or Nothing
Dan Stone
13. When Postmodern Play Meets Survivor Testimony: Federman and Holocaust Literature
Susan Rubin Suleiman
14. “In Black Inkblood”: Agonistic and Cooperative Authorship in the (Re)Writing of History
Marcel Cornis-Pope
15. Cosmobabble or, Federman’s Return
Christian Moraru
16. Featherman’s Body Literature or, the Unbearable Lightness of Being
Michael Wutz
17. Federman’s Laughterature
Menachem Feuer
Afterword
Critifictional Reflections on the Novel Today
Raymond Federman
About the Contributors
Index
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Jeffrey R. Di Leo is Professor of English and Philosophy at the University of Houston-Victoria. He is also editor and publisher of the
American Book Review and editor-in-chief of
symplokē, a journal of comparative literature and theory. His books include
Fiction’s Present: Situating Contemporary Narrative Innovation (coedited with R. M. Berry), also published by SUNY Press.
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