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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: In this paper, a case study of two selected Indian literary texts by Arvind Adiga and Amitav Ghosh is presented to understand the psychology behind the working of dialogic consciousness and the intercession involved in the formulation of postcolonialpostmodernist subject.
Abstract: Emerging new literature has facilitated a dialogue among the alternative aesthetics created by new literature with an interpolation of central theoretical discourses. It opens an avenue for theories travelling across cultures to decipher intricacies involved into contemporary world. Today we live with a global consciousness that illustrates the formulation of a new postcolonial-postmodernist ‘I’. Bakhtin’s concepts of dialogic consciousness, the unfinalizable self and the idea of the relationship between the ‘self’ and ‘others’ lead us to understand this postcolonial-postmodernist framework as reflected in many Indian literary and cultural discourses. It throws light on how we perceive an individual entity in relation to the specific socio-cultural code which inhere multiple intercessions. Present article attempts to discover the fundamentals of the ‘postcolonial-postmodernist liberation’ through the case study of two selected Indian literary texts by Arvind Adiga and Amitav Ghosh. Both the texts explain the psychology behind the working of dialogic consciousness and the intercession involved in the formulation of postcolonial-postmodernist subject. It may be elucidated through the understanding of mechanism that always strives to attain a point of equilibrium. Representing the postcolonial-postmodernist psychology which questions various cultural norms, it initiates a dialogue between freedom and restrictions, individual and social, and real versus virtual. It turns out an everlasting quest for refined version of the metamorphic ‘self’ shaped by the dialogic consciousness of the postcolonial and postmodernist world.
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Abstract: Die zweite Halfte des 20. Jh.s wird gemeinhin als das Zeitalter der Postmoderne bezeichnet, das auf die je verschieden datierte und definierte Moderne folgt. Es ist von der raschen Abfolge und Interrelation einschneidender Entwicklungen auf politischem, kulturellem und gesellschaftlichem Gebiet gepragt. Diese Entwicklungen scheinen einer doppelten Grundtendenz zu folgen. Zum einen ist gegenuber den eher kollektiven gesellschaftlichen Orientierungen der ersten Jahrhunderthalfte, insbesondere der 30er Jahre, eine deutliche Individualisierung der Weltsicht und ein verstarktes Bewustsein der Relativitat und Partialitat von Selbst- und Weltbildern zu beobachten. Zum anderen vollzieht sich in verscharftem Tempo die schon in der Moderne eingeleitete Ablosung traditioneller Vorstellungen von Gesellschaft und Kultur, sowohl im entfremdenden Sinn der fortschreitenden Anonymisierung von Lebensbezugen und des oft traumatisch erfahrenen Verlusts gesicherter Werte und Identitatsmuster, als auch im befreienden Sinn des Entwurfs neuer, alternativer Lebens- und Gemeinschaftsformen auf der Grundlage pluralistischer, zunehmend auch okologisch orientierter Formen des Denkens und des kunstlerischen Schaffens. Entsprechend der Vielgestaltigkeit dieses Ubergangs reicht die seit der Jahrhundertmitte entstandene amerikanische Literatur von konventionellen realistischen Darstellungsformen bis zu radikalen Experimenten des Postmodernismus.
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