Productive postmodernism : consuming histories and cultural studies / edited by John N. Duvall ; with an afterword by Linda Hutcheon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Duvall, John N. (John Noel), 1956-

Series:

SUNY series in postmodern culture.

The SUNY series in postmodern culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arts, Modern--20th century.

Arts, Modern.

Postmodernism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 224 p. ) ill. ;

Place of Publication:

Albany, New York : State University of New York Press, [2002]

Summary:

Productive Postmodernism addresses the differing accounts of postmodernism found in the work of Fredric Jameson and Linda Hutcheon, a debate that centers around the two theorists' senses of pastiche and parody. For Jameson, postmodern texts are ahistorical, playing with pastiched images and aesthetic forms, and are therefore unable to provide a critical purchase on culture and capital. For Hutcheon, postmodern fiction and architecture remain political, opening spaces for social critique through a parody that deconstructs official history. Thinking in the space between these two sharply different positions, the essays in this collection investigate a broad range of contemporary fiction, film, and architecture—from such narratives as Don DeLillo's Libra, Toni Morrison's Beloved, and Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, to the vastly different spaces of Las Vegas casinos and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum—in order to ask what the cultural work of a postmodern aesthetic might be.

Contents:

Troping history : modernist residue in Jameson's Pastiche and Hutcheon's Parody / John N. Duvall

Postmodernism and history : complicitous critique and the political unconscious / Thomas Carmichael

A mother (and a son, and a brother, and a wife, et. al.) in history : stories galore in Libra and the Warren Commission Report / Stacey Olster

Donald Barthelme and the president of the United States / Michael Zeitlin

"Postmodern blackness" : Toni Morrison's Beloved and the end of history / Kimberly Chabot Davis

Historiographic metafiction and the celebration of differences : Ishmael Reed's Mumbo jumbo / W. Lawrence Hogue

Troping the Renaissance : postmodern historiography and early modern history / Paul Budra

Los Angeles, 2019 : two tales of a city / Kevin R. McNamara

Postmodern casinos / Shelton Waldrep

Postmodernism and Holocaust memory : productive tensions in the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum / Nancy J. Peterson

"Acting from the midst of identities" : questions from Linda Hutcheon.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-218) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780791489468

0791489469

9780585450292

0585450293

OCLC:

52417921