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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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02 Oct 2015
TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a framework for the analysis and theoretical close reading of Kurdish novels, based on a self-reflexive magical realist novel, written in the early 1970s.
Abstract: ............................................................................................................... 3 Acknowledgments ................................................................................................ 5 Transliteration ....................................................................................................... 6 CHAPTER ONE .................................................................................................. 10 Introduction ......................................................................................................... 10 1.1. The Kurdish novel: from writing in Kurdish as a political act to aesthetic political writing ................... 10 1.2. Research Questions ............................................................................................................................. 22 1 3. Kurdish literary criticism: the lack of analytical and theoretical close reading of Kurdish novels ....... 23 1.4. (Magical) realism, modernism and postmodernism: a clarification ...................................................... 27 1.5. Theoretical framework.......................................................................................................................... 33 1.6. Methodology ......................................................................................................................................... 37 1.7. The criteria for selecting the novels ..................................................................................................... 39 1.8. Dissertation outline ............................................................................................................................... 43 CHAPTER TWO ................................................................................................. 46 A prophet for our time in Bachtyar Ali’s Şarî Mosîqare Sipiyekan: magical realism and subjectivity ................................................................................................. 46 2.1. Şarî Mosîqare Sipiyekan a self-reflexive magical realist novel: the realm of new subjectivities? ..... 49 2.2 Mozart: a divine magical music ............................................................................................................. 57 2.3. The return to folk tale heroes ............................................................................................................... 60 2.4. “Angel” or “villain”: a narrow presentation of Womanhood .................................................................. 68 2.5. Love: reinforcing an unequal relationship between two sexes? .......................................................... 72 2.6. The transformation of subjectivity in a moment of epiphany................................................................ 77 2.7. The diminishing of the official nationalist discourse ............................................................................. 80 CHAPTER THREE ............................................................................................. 89
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...A number of critics consider magical realism as a “strain” of postmodernism (for example, McHale 1987; Hutcheon 2002 [1989])....
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...Detailed discussion of this subject is beyond the scope of this study, suffice it to say that the former position states that modernism and postmodernism share “self-consciousness” or “reliance, however ironic, on tradition” (Hutcheon 2002, p. 27)....
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TL;DR: In this paper, a critique of The Roots of War is presented, in which a single, ostensibly authoritative account is given of deep-rooted ethnic conflict in the former Yugoslavia while failing to provide adequate substantiation and evidence.
Abstract: The major part of this article is taken up with an analysis of the television documentary The Roots of War, which played a pivotal role in the Channel 4 `Bloody Bosnia' season, screened in the summer of 1993. The analysis involves a critique of the programme's mode of argumentation in which a single, ostensibly authoritative account is given of deep-rooted ethnic conflict in the former Yugoslavia while failing to provide adequate substantiation and evidence. This fairly typical `serious' documentary is contrasted unfavourably with an ideal type of critical social theory. The latter is self-reflexive about its modes of reasoning, aware of multiple perspectives and ontological complexity, and scrupulous about its use of evidence and explanatory procedure (past-modern). The article leads up to the detailed critique of The Roots of War through prior reference to recent reflections on the quality of the public sphere and citizens' faculties of reasoning, empathy and moral deliberation in relation to distant an...
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Dissertation•
01 Jan 2012
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Abstract: Any use you make of these documents or images must be for research or private study purposes only, and you may not make them available to any other person. Authors control the copyright of their thesis. You will recognise the author's right to be identified as the author of this thesis, and due acknowledgement will be made to the author where appropriate. You will obtain the author's permission before publishing any material from their thesis.
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