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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.
List of contents
- Introduction: Antipodean Time and the Anthropocenic Imaginary
- 1: Répétition Planétaire: Upside Down Postmodernism
- 2: Antipodean Alice: Cold War Fetishism and Frozen Time
- 3: Queer Poetic Time: Crosstemporal Parataxis and Disjunctions of Scale
- 4: "Reverse-Thinking": Metahistorical Arts and Fictions
- 5: Two-way Time Travel: Recursive Science and "Backward-Flowing" Fiction
- 6: Postmodern Slave Narratives: Anachronism and Disorientation
- 7: Reorchestrating the Past: Long Songs and Antipodean Relations
- Conclusion: The Long Postmodernism
About the author
Paul Giles is Challis Professor of English at the University of Sydney. He has worked at the Universities of Nottingham, Cambridge, Oxford, and Portland State and he is currently serving as President of the International Association of University Professors of English.
Summary
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.
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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.
