The Planetary Clock
Antipodean Time and Spherical Postmodern Fictions
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 23 February 2021
- ISBN 9780198857723
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages436 pages
- Size 26x164x241 mm
- Weight 882 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 22 colour and 16 black and white Illustrations 140
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Short description:
Ranging over various aesthetic forms (literature, film, music) in the period since 1960, this volume brings an antipodean perspective into conversation with the art and culture of the Northern Hemisphere, to reformulate postmodernism as a properly global phenomenon.
MoreLong description:
The theme of The Planetary Clock is the representation of time in postmodern culture and the way temporality as a global phenomenon manifests itself differently across an antipodean axis. To trace postmodernism in an expansive spatial and temporal arc, from its formal experimentation in the 1960s to environmental concerns in the twenty-first century, is to describe a richer and more complex version of this cultural phenomenon. Exploring different scales of time from a Southern Hemisphere perspective, with a special emphasis on issues of Indigeneity and the Anthropocene, The Planetary Clock offers a wide-ranging, revisionist account of postmodernism, reinterpreting literature, film, music, and visual art of the post-1960 period within a planetary framework.
By bringing the culture of Australia and New Zealand into dialogue with other Western narratives, it suggests how an antipodean impulse, involving the transposition of the world into different spatial and temporal dimensions, has long been an integral (if generally occluded) aspect of postmodernism. Taking its title from a Florentine clock designed in 1510 to measure worldly time alongside the rotation of the planets, The Planetary Clock ranges across well-known American postmodernists (John Barth, Toni Morrison) to more recent science fiction writers (Octavia Butler, Richard Powers), while bringing the US tradition into juxtaposition with both its English (Philip Larkin, Ian McEwan) and Australian (Les Murray, Alexis Wright) counterparts. By aligning cultural postmodernism with music (Messiaen, Ligeti, Birtwistle), the visual arts (Hockney, Blackman, Fiona Hall), and cinema (Rohmer, Haneke, Tarantino), this volume enlarges our understanding of global postmodernism for the twenty-first century.
Always challenging conventional wisdom and armed with an impressively vast archive of primary source material, Giles's work consistently expands the scope and scale of contemporary cultural analysis...The threads of reciprocal relation that Giles weaves together provocatively reframe both postmodernism and the antipodean in insightful and innovative ways...In illuminating the antipodean imaginary that runs through postmodernism, The Planetary Clock makes an important and innovative contribution to our understanding of that historical moment.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Antipodean Time and the Anthropocenic Imaginary
Répétition Planétaire: Upside Down Postmodernism
Antipodean Alice: Cold War Fetishism and Frozen Time
Queer Poetic Time: Crosstemporal Parataxis and Disjunctions of Scale
"Reverse-Thinking": Metahistorical Arts and Fictions
Two-way Time Travel: Recursive Science and "Backward-Flowing" Fiction
Postmodern Slave Narratives: Anachronism and Disorientation
Reorchestrating the Past: Long Songs and Antipodean Relations
Conclusion: The Long Postmodernism
