scispace - formally typeset
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
Dissertation

Strong words, weak subjects: a critical examination and theoretical and historical contextualisation of the novels of don delillo

TL;DR: DeLillo's work has also been studied in the context of post-modern literature as discussed by the authors, with a focus on critical contextualisation of the novels of Don DeLillo that situates the author at the forefront of contemporary literatures of resistance.
Dissertation

Turning back : continuity and difference in modernist and postmodernist reflexivity

TL;DR: The relationship between modernism and post-structuralism has been investigated in this article, where it is argued that modernism's reflexive drive is directed towards truth and self-knowledge, whereas postmodern reflexivity is centrally concerned with the elusive, continually shifting nature of meaning.
Journal ArticleDOI

Toni Morrison's A Mercy and the Counterwriting of Negative Communities: A Postnational Novel

TL;DR: Morrison's A Mercy as mentioned in this paper is the counterwriting of a negative community, forged on affiliations and affects, as much as conflict and inequalities, which define the early beginnings of modernity in America; this community remains on the edges of the national imaginary and betrays another history of community in modernity, not yet bound or enchanted by the national community.
Journal ArticleDOI

Queering the Nation: Hegemonic Masculinity, Negative Sovereignty and the Great War in Sebastian Barry’s A Long Long Way

TL;DR: A Long Long Way as mentioned in this paper explores the impact of the First World War in the construction of a sovereignty that is, against the grain of a teleological understanding of history, not incorporated in the official chronicle of the Irish independence from the British Empire.
Dissertation

Mockumentaries and the music industry : between flattery and criticism

TL;DR: A tesis analiza la relacion entre la industria de la musica and falsos documentales as mentioned in this paper, discutiendo lo que hasta ahora no se ha escrito acerca de falso documentales.