Jeffrey Ebbeson

Postmodernism and its Others (eBook, PDF)

The Fiction of Ishmael Reed, Kathy Acker, and Don DeLillo

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135922832
• Artikelnr.: 49351702

Autorenporträt

Jeffrey Ebbeson

Inhaltsangabe

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