Postmodernism and Its Others - The Fiction of Ishmael Reed, Kathy Acker, and Don Delillo

Informationen zum Autor Jeffrey Ebbeson Klappentext First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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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• Authors: Jeffrey Ebbesen, Jeffrey Ebbeson, Jeffrey S. Ebbeson, EBBESON JEFFREY S
• Assisted by: William E. Cain (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.02.2006
• EAN: 9780415975445
• ISBN: 978-0-415-97544-5
• No. of pages: 262
• Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory; Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; PHILOSOPHY / General, Philosophy