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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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01 Sep 2018
TL;DR: The authors discusses the historical, political and personal double narrative inherent in Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day (1989) and the first-person narrator, butler Stevens approaches self-awareness from double angles of time and space.
Abstract: This paper discusses the historical, political and personal double narrative inherent in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day (1989). The first-person narrator, butler Stevens approaches self-awareness from double angles of time and space. Although Stevens and his country, the British Empire had lost its glory of the past and the nostalgia of its magnificent days, they still try to look positively into the present. Drawing on historicity and mythology, aristocratism and democracy, Stevens’ nostalgia and self-awareness, Ishiguro implies that we are all butlers. This paper does not find greatness within past nostalgia but explores the way to dignity through historical, political, and personal self-awareness in the fast changing world of today.
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01 Jan 2018
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors read Martin Crimp's play Attempts on Her Life (1997) as an exemplary instance of post-dramatic writing by contextualizing Crimp’s work by looking at its early critical reception and relationship to the era of ‘Cool Britannia’ and the so-called ‘In-Yer-Face’ movement.
Abstract: This chapter reads Martin Crimp’s play Attempts on Her Life (1997) as an exemplary instance of postdramatic writing by contextualising Crimp’s work by looking at its early critical reception and relationship to the era of ‘Cool Britannia’ and the so-called ‘In-Yer-Face’ movement. The chapter also interrogates the work’s gender politics by examining how it uses irony to deal with the (mis)representations of women within the so-called society of the spectacle. The final section of the chapter describes and analyses a range of pedagogical and political issues generated by a student production of the play I directed in 2003 with a focus on the way Ranciere’s argument about educational equality can help us unpack the ethical dilemmas generated by teaching postdramatic theatre through practice.
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Dissertation•
16 May 2011
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