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The Politics of Postmodernism
01 Jan 1989-
TL;DR: In this article, the postmodernist representation is de-naturalized the natural, Photographic discourse, Telling Stories: fiction and history, Re-presenting the past: 'total history' de-totalized, Knowing the past in the present, The archive as text.
Abstract: General editor's preface. Acknowledgements. 1. Representing the postmodern: What is postmodernism? Representation and its politics, Whose postmodernism? Postmodernity, postmodernism, and modernism. 2. Postmodernist representation: De-naturalizing the natural, Photographic discourse, Telling Stories: fiction and history. 3. Re-presenting the past: 'Total history' de-totalized, Knowing the past in the present, The archive as text. 4. The politics of parody: Parodic postmodern representation, Double-coded politics, Postmodern film? 5. Text/image border tensions: The paradoxes of photography, The ideological arena of photo-graphy, The politics of address 6. Postmodernism and feminisms: Politicizing desire, Feminist postmodernist parody, The private and the public. Concluding note: some directed reading. Bibliography. Index.
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TL;DR: Ghasemi as discussed by the authors examines a number of Suzan-Lori Parks's plays from the perspectives of postmodern drama and African American feminism, focusing on the terrains which reflect the African Americans' quest/ ion of identities.
Abstract: Mehdi Ghasemi is a Ph.D. student in the English Department at the University of Turku, Finland. His dissertation examines a number of Suzan-Lori Parks’s plays from the perspectives of postmodern drama and African American feminism, focusing on the terrains which reflect the African Americans’ quest/ ion of identities. His most recent essays are “Sleep, Death’s Twin Brother: A Postmodern Quest for Identities in The Death of the Last Black Man,” published in Orbis Litterarum (2015) and “A Study of Quad Ps in Suzan-Lori Parks’s Venus,” published in Journal of Black Studies (2015). Peace in Pieces: A Postmodern Study of Suzan-Lori Parks’s Venus
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TL;DR: A survey of The Colbert Report's devoted followers found that the fans are distrustful of political and media elites, highly cynical, very politically involved, not apathetic, and moderately efficacious as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: The Colbert Report, an innovative American satirical news show, and the show's dedicated viewers, known as “the Colbert Nation,” redefined fan engagement through audience participation, mediated culture jamming, and ironic political spectacle. Yet very little is known about this fan group. This survey of The Colbert Report's devoted followers finds that the fans are distrustful of political and media elites, highly cynical, very politically involved, not apathetic, and moderately efficacious. Further analysis reveals that viewers have different motivations, some seeing the show as primarily entertainment, some mainly as a trusted source of political information, and others as a mix of entertainment and information. The fans are also found to be highly sophisticated consumers of satire and news, and watch the show as an alternative to mainstream media and as a form of comic relief from current events. Several implications are discussed.
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TL;DR: In this article, the analysis of three works that remediate paper, voice, the writing hand, or the physical presence of the author leads to the conclusion that an absent presence is given prominence.
Abstract: Digital literature emphasizes its own medium, and it brings to the foreground the graphic, material aspects of language. Experiments with the new medium and with the form of language are generally presented and interpreted within a framework of the historical avant-garde or the neo-avant-garde. This article aims to take a new perspective on the emerging digital materiality of language. The analysis of three works that remediate paper, the voice, the writing hand, or the physical presence of the author, leads to the conclusion that an ‘absent presence’ is given prominence. This paradoxical merging of presence and absence makes these forms of digital literature an expression of a specifically late postmodernist ambivalent stance regarding representation of the ‘real’. Complicity with the media culture goes hand in hand with an ironic approach of the mediatedness of the world and the body.
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30 Jun 2020
TL;DR: In this article, the authors apply metamodernism and its trends to the literary analysis of cybertext and reveal metamodeern ideas in The Last of Us using main metamoderern categories as a tool for text study.
Abstract: Among numerous ways to describe the culture and literature after postmodernism metamodern is becoming more and more popular. Its main features – oscillation, affect, desire for structure and (re)construction etc. – appear in many products of contemporary culture. This article reflects the endeavour to apply metamodernism and its trends to the literary analysis of cybertext. Crucial trends of metamodernism are briefly described and implemented in the analysis of a video game. The features of cybertext that influence the analysis are considered. All these instruments were used to show the metamodern nature of the game by Naughty Dog, The Last of Us (2013). The article attempts to analyze a cybertext through the methods of literary analysis and reveal metamodern ideas in The Last of Us using main metamodern categories as a tool for text study.
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01 Jan 1997
TL;DR: This paper investigated the authors' descriptions and Interpretations on African American art and artists by probing three key Issue categories such as: 1) historical (style Isms, media, technique and term s), 2) anthropological (cultural diversity, social, culture, difference, race, representation, gender), 3) rhetorical (validation of multicultural views, D.B.A.E., Identifications, description, Interpretation, language assumptions, and attitudes).
Abstract: In this study I Investigate one middle school art education text, Understanding and Creating Art. by Goldstein, Katz, Kowalchuk, and Saunders (1986) and one high school art education text, A Basic History of Art by Janson and Janson (1992). I use content analysis research methodology to explore the written text for the diverse d iscourses on African American art and artists from the 1880’s to 1992 In art history. This study focuses on the authors’ sundry Interpretations in which African American art and artists are represented. I Investigated the au thors’ descriptions and Interpretations on African American art and artist by probing three key Issue categories such as: 1) historical (style Isms, media, technique and term s), 2) anthropological (cultural diversity, social, culture, difference, race, representation, gender), 3) rhetorical (validation of multicultural views, D.B.A.E., Identifications, description , Interpretation, language assum ptions, and attitudes). This study exam ines key words like realism, cubism, expressionism etc. for historical Issues, key words like minorities, m ainstream , dominant, cultural and social for anthropological Issues, and key words like non-W estem , elem ents of design, race, ethnicity,gender, other, and difference for rhetorical Issues. The context of the authors’ descriptions and Interpretations on all the represented artists within a given chapter, unit, and/or segm ent becom es the subject under analysis. ii For My Mother, Georgia Louise Claxton
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