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Barth is often-cited but relatively little-explored, with most scholars and critics focusing on his concepts of "exhaustion" and "replenishment" and revealing limited understanding of the full range of his work. Clavier (migration and ethnic relations, Malomo U.) opens Barth's discourse on his aesthetic as it relates to the ideological critiques of the avant-gardes, offering montage as a possible model for understanding Barth's fiction. The result is the interesting notion that postmodernism may be a mimesis of reality, particularly as it relates to the collective nature of self. Clavier builds his case primarily with commentary on Barth's theme of travel, noting Barth's idiosyncratic take on spatiality and the idea of travel as escape out of postmodernism, the postmodern aesthetic as it relates to travel, the myth of the postmodern breakthrough, self-discovery in voyage, and spaces that become as itinerant as those who seek them. Annotation c2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
