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What is the political value of time, and where does that value reside? Should politics place its hope in future possibility, or does that simply defer action in the present? Can the present ground a vision of change, or is it too circumscribed by the status quo? In Qualified Hope: A Postmodern Politics of Time, Mitchum Huehls contends that conventional treatments of time’s relationship to politics are limited by a focus on real-world experiences of time. By contrast, the innovative literary forms developed by authors in direct response to political events such as the Cold War, globalization, the emergence of identity politics, and 9/11 offer readers uniquely literary experiences of time. And it is in these literary experiences of time that Qualified Hope identifies more complicated—and thus more productive—ways to think about the time-politics relationship. Qualified Hope challenges the conventional characterization of postmodernism as a period in which authors reject time in favor of space as the primary category for organizing experience and knowledge. And by identifying a common commitment to time at the heart of postmodern literature, Huehls suggests that the period-defining divide between multiculturalism and theory is not as stark as previously thought.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright
  2. pp. i-vi
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  1. Table of Contents
  2. pp. vii-viii
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  1. Acknowledgments
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  1. Introduction: Time, Postmodern Difference, and the Possibility of Politics
  2. pp. 1-30
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  1. Part 1. The Culture of Politics
  1. 1. Media Messages: Don Delillo's White Noise
  2. pp. 33-56
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  1. 2. Global Technologies: Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon
  2. pp. 57-78
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  1. 3. 9/11: Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close and Art Spiegelman's In the Shadow of No Towers
  2. pp. 79-102
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  1. Part 2. The Politics of Culture
  1. 4. Race: Nathaniel Mackey's From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate
  2. pp. 105-132
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  1. 5. Gender: Leslie Scalapino's Experimental Poetry
  2. pp. 133-160
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  1. 6. Borders: Dagoberto Gilb's The Last Known Residence of Mickey Acuna
  2. pp. 161-190
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  1. Conclusion: Future, Present, Past
  2. pp. 191-196
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  1. Notes
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  1. Bibliography
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  1. Index
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