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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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20 Sep 2019
TL;DR: In this article, a trabajo plantea una reflexion acerca de las modalidades de analisis literario sobre La carroza de Bolivar de Evelio Rosero.
Abstract: Este trabajo plantea una reflexion acerca de las modalidades de analisis literario sobre La carroza de Bolivar de Evelio Rosero. A traves de la postulacion de la teoria literaria como un discurso historico, se formulan dos paradigmas de analisis del texto literario: la racionalidad de la representacion y la racionalidad no representacional. El primero establece una matriz de analisis segun la cual todo texto literario solo es inteligible en el marco de su relacion con la realidad; dictamina, para el caso de La carroza de Bolivar, un esquema en el que la novela debe ser leida solo a traves de la comprension de la historia colombiana (esquema que se materializa en las categorias Novela Historica y Nueva Novela Historica). La segunda presenta una lectura personal de la novela que prescinde de las categorias representacionales autor y realidad para el analisis literario. Por medio de este ejercicio se muestra La carroza de Bolivar como potencia para la creacion de la realidad (y no como su representacion), al tiempo que se lleva a cabo una critica a la racionalidad de la representacion. En ese sentido, este trabajo presenta las categorias clasicas de la representacion (sujeto, realidad absoluta y genero, que aparecen con distintos matices desde la tradicion griega hasta la sociologia de la literatura) para, a traves de una lectura personal de la novela, mostrar sus alcances, sus limitaciones y sus fisuras.
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TL;DR: In the epilogue of the second edition of The Politics of Postmodernism, Linda Hutcheon (2002: 165-66) declares that postmodernism is "a thing of the past" as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: In the epilogue of the second edition of The Politics of Postmodernism, Linda Hutcheon (2002: 165–66) declares that postmodernism is ‘a thing of the past’; for her, it is ‘over’. While in 2002 Hutc...
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TL;DR: The authors argued that the early female transportation is itself a revisionist metafictive act; a newly positivised re-imagining of the female convict and her future scene of exile in Australia.
Abstract: This article is a literary response to historical investigations of the female convict. It unites postmodern theories, in particular Linda Hutcheon's idea of “historiographic metafiction”, with Richard Cobbold's mid-nineteenth-century “history” of one particular female convict, namely Margaret Catchpole. It argues that Cobbold's novelisation of early female transportation is itself a revisionist metafictive act; a newly positivised re-imagining of the female convict and her future scene of exile – Australia. His religious framework resignifies Margaret as a newly imagined colonial citizen, not merely the “damned whore” she traditionally represented. It is this act of historical rewriting which alerts us to contemporary issues of how to write a “discontinuous” history of the figure of the female convict, and the means by which we can begin to assess the literary status of early Anglo-Australian relations.
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