Postmodern Pooh - Review

Postmodern Pooh. Frederick Crews. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 19 Union Square West, New York, NY 10003. 2002. ISBN 086547-626-8. 175 pp. Softcover, $22. A sequel of sorts to Crews's surprise best-selling parody of academic literary criticism of thirty-seven years ago, The Pooh Perplex. Crews, emeritus professor of English at Berkeley and a CSICOP Fellow, here contributes a new satire in the same vein.

Purporting to be the proceedings of a forum on Pooh convened at a convention of the Modern Language Association, Postmodern Pooh parodies the academic fads and figures that hold sway at the millennium. These include deconstruction, posrstrucruralist Marxism, new historicism, radical feminism, cultural studies, recovered-memory theory, and postcolonialism, among others.

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