Open AccessBook
The Politics of Postmodernism
Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
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.read more
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Pushing Anthropology Past the Posts: Critical notes on cultural anthropology and cultural studies as influenced by postmodernism and existentialism
TL;DR: The authors suggests that a critical analysis of postmodem and existentialist underpinnings reveals common political and ethical problems, and that perspectives grounded in critical humanism are better at exposing and grappling with these problems.
Proceedings ArticleDOI
Electronic tools for dismantling the master's house: poststructuralist feminist research and hypertext poetics
TL;DR: A hypertextual experiment, a reinscription of Troubling the Angels with additional materials, that explores such issues as associative linking, intertextual and intratextual juxtapositions, the unfixing of textual hierarchies in a “rhizomatic” text, non-sequential polylogic, multigeneric collage, and the role of the reader as textual agent.
Journal ArticleDOI
Beyond “Pure” Literature: Mimesis, Formula, and the Postmodern in the Fiction of Murakami Haruki
TL;DR: Murakami Haruki (b. 1949) found himself more or less at odds with well-known members of the Japanese literary establishment as mentioned in this paper, but this was not the result of conscious effort on his part, but rather a matter of his own individualism, a certain indifference toward the conventions and opinions of professional critics in Japan's literary community.
Constructing School Organization Through Metaphor: Making Sense of School Reform
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a method to solve the problem of "uniformity" in the following manner, i.i.e., "quantity-based".
Journal ArticleDOI
Picturing irony: The subversive power of photography1
TL;DR: In this paper, Sperber and Wilson's echoic mention theory of irony is applied and shown to provide a more comprehensive and economic approach to visual irony than the much-disputed checklists of necessary and sufficient features traditionally associated with studies of irony.