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 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. 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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• Autori: Jeffrey Ebbesen, Jeffrey Ebbeson, Jeffrey S. Ebbeson, EBBESON JEFFREY S
• Con la collaborazione di: William E. Cain (Editore della collana)
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 02.02.2006
• EAN: 9780415975445
• ISBN: 978-0-415-97544-5
• Pagine: 262
• Serie: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory; Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; PHILOSOPHY / General, Philosophy