Seemingly realistic novels like Ragtime are secretly nonrepresentational holograms of ideologemes

Evidence

What such a description would want to register is the paradox that a seemingly realistic novel like Ragtime is in reality a nonrepresentational work that combines fantasy signifiers from a variety of ideologemes in a kind of hologram. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 90

Categorization

• DEFINE: Sharpens the definition of postmodern realism — it is pseudo-realism, a hologram of signifiers, not representation.
• XREF: connects to: A novel’s symbolic claims can exceed the terms that render its characters coherent — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures, 250; Postmodern fiction resists from within instead of opposing wholesale — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the…, 945; Cynical disbelief masks an unconscious ideological fantasy structuring reality — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 30 (+2 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: A novel’s symbolic claims can exceed the terms that render its characters coherent — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures, 250; Postmodern fiction resists from within instead of opposing wholesale — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the…, 945; Cynical disbelief masks an unconscious ideological fantasy structuring reality — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 30 (+2 more)