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- Productive Postmodernism: Consuming Histories and Cultural Studies
- Book
- 2002
- Published by: State University of New York Press
- Series: SUNY series in Postmodern Culture
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.
Table of Contents
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- List of Illustrations
- pp. vii-viii
- Postmodernism, Fiction, History
- Postmodernism, Architecture, History
- 8. Los Angeles, 2019: Two Tales of a City
- pp. 123-136
- 9. Postmodern Casinos
- pp. 137-166
- Afterword
- Works Cited
- pp. 207-218
- Contributors
- pp. 219-220
Additional Information
ISBN
9780791489468
DOI
MARC Record
OCLC
52417921
Pages
238
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No