Postmodernism and its Others
The Fiction of Ishmael Reed, Kathy Acker, and Don DeLillo
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 2 February 2006
- ISBN 9780415975445
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages262 pages
- Size 229x152 mm
- Weight 476 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Explores the work of three traditionally postmodern authors, Ishmael Reed, Kathy Acker and Don Delillo to highlight some significant flaws in the way postmodernism is categorized. This work contends that whilst these authors do possess a number of so-called 'postmodern' qualities, their critical forms and/or contents remain ethically grounded.
MoreLong description:
The book analyzes Ishmael Reed [Mumbo Jumbo], Kathy Acker [The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec by Henri Toulouse Lautrec], and Don Delillo [White Noise], three authors whom critics cite as quintessentially postmodern. For these critics such works possess formal narrative and/or content qualities at odds with modernism. In particular, according to influential thinkers like Fredric Jameson, postmodern works possess narrative form and/or content which eschews reality, and embody a fundamental paradigm shift from the politically committed ideology of modernity and modernism to the politically relativistic ideology of postmodernity and postmodernism. The book contends that while the above authors do possess numerous so-called postmodern qualities, their critical forms and/or contents remain ethically and politically grounded. As most postmodern theory rejects such grounding, its discovery in these prototypical postmodern novels suggests problems with the postmodern category itself.
MoreTable of Contents:
Acknowledgements Introduction What is Postmodernism, and What Difference Does It Make? Chapter One Politicizing Authority, Authorship, and Identity in Ishmael Reed's Mumbo Jumbo Chapter Two Combative Textualities-Kathy Acker's The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec by Henri Toulouse Lautrec Chapter Three Don DeLillo's White Noise: Reading Consumers and the Politics of Commodified Education Chapter Four Repoliticizing Depoliticized Categories: Literary Inheritance, Textual Activism, and the Space of Reading
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