A Postmodern ReaderJoseph P. Natoli, Linda Hutcheon These readings are organized into four sections. The first explores the wellsprings of the debates in the relationship between the postmodern and the enterprise it both continues and contravenes: modernism. Here philosophers, social and political commentators, as well as cultural and literary analysts present controversial background essays on the complex history of postmodernism. The readings in the second section debate the possibility--or desirability--of trying to define the postmodern, given its cultural agenda of decentering, challenging, even undermining the guiding "master" narratives of Western culture. The readings in the third section explore postmodernism's complicated complicity with these very narratives, while the fourth section moves from theory to practice in order to investigate, in a variety of fields, the common denominators of the postmodern condition in action. |
Contents
MODERNPOSTMODERN | 1 |
Ambivalence | 9 |
an Introductory Survey | 25 |
A Report on Knowledge | 71 |
Towards an Analytic Distinction | 157 |
REPRESENTING THE POSTMODERN | 193 |
its Critics | 203 |
Discourse of the Human Sciences | 223 |
Or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism | 312 |
Volume I An Introduction | 333 |
and Postmodernism | 398 |
POSTMODERN PRACTICES | 441 |
Redefining the Boundaries of Race and Ethnicity | 452 |
Cultural Movements as Vehicles | 497 |
and Pedagogy for the 1990s | 538 |
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