Identity, Culture and the Postmodern World / Madan Sarup.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sarup, Madan, Author.

Contributor:

Brooker, Peter, Contributor.

Raja, Tasneem, Contributor.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This introductory guide surveys the work of a range of influential contemporary social theorists including Lacan, Baudrillard, Foucault, Said, Harvey and Haug and explains their analyses of current topics such as consumer identity and commodity aesthetics; post-colonial criticism; identity and narrative; and the general condition of postmodernity.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

FOREWORD

BEGINNING AND THE END

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

AN INTRODUCTION: WRITING THE SELF

1 The Home, the Journey and the Border

2 Identity and Narrative

3 Identity and the Unconscious

4 Identity and Difference

5 Foucault: Discipline and the Self

6 Foucault: Sex and the Technologies of the Self

7 The Condition of Postmodernity

8 Baudrillard: Images and Identity in Consumer Society

9 Consumer Identity and Commodity Aesthetics

10 National Identity: ‘Englishness’ and Education

11 Imperialism and Culture

12 ‘Race’, Ethnicity and Nation-ness

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781474472272

1474472273

OCLC:

1415892441