Productive Postmodernism
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Productive Postmodernism

Consuming Histories and Cultural Studies

  1. 238 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Productive Postmodernism

Consuming Histories and Cultural Studies

About this book

Investigates a broad range of contemporary fiction, film, and architecture to address the role of history in postmodern cultural productions.

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Productive Postmodernism
  2. Contents
  3. List of Illustrations
  4. Preface
  5. 1. Troping History: Modernist Residue in Jameson’s Pastiche and Hutcheon’s Parody by John N. Duvall
  6. 2. Postmodernism and History: Complicitous Critique and the Political Unconscious by Thomas Carmichael
  7. Postmodernism, Fiction, History
  8. Postmodernism, Architecture, History
  9. Afterword
  10. Works Cited
  11. Contributors
  12. Index