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*An examination of the survival of cultural values in a postmodern environment*
Author : Virgil Nemoianu
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 14,24 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813216842
*An examination of the survival of cultural values in a postmodern environment*
Author : Theo d'. Haen
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 43,13 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9042021187
Cultural Identity and Postmodern Writing seeks to ascertain the relationship obtaining between the specific form postmodernism assumes in a given culture, and the national narrative in which that culture traditionally recognizes itself. Theo D'haen provides a general introduction to the issue of "cultural identity and postmodern writing." Jos Joosten and Thomas Vaessens take a look at Dutch literature, and particular Dutch poetry, in relation to "postmodernism." Robert Haak and Andrea Kunne do the same with regard to, respectively, German and Austrian literature, while Roel Daamen turns to Scottish literature. Patricia Krus discusses postmodernism in relation to Caribbean literature, and Kristian van Haesendonck and Nanne Timmer turn their attention to Puerto Rican and Cuban literature, while Adriana Churampi deals with Peruvian literature. Finally, Markha Valenta investigates the roots of the postmodernism debate in the United States. This volume is of interest to all students and scholars of modern and contemporary literature, and to anyone interested in issues of identity as linked to matters of culture.
Author : Jitendra Jain
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 16,39 MB
Release : 2013-05-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3640791754
Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject Cultural Studies - Empiric Cultural Studies, grade: 2.0, Ruhr-University of Bochum (European Culture & Economy), course: MA (ECUE), language: English, abstract: End of the 20th century has witnessed sudden emergence of “Identity Culture”. More and more people across the globe are thinking about their identity and origin. Collective identity is gaining more and more importance. Noted Scholar Samuel Huntington writes in his celebrated work „ Kampf der Kulturen“ : „Völker und Nationen versuchen heute, die elementarste Frage zu beantworten, vor der Menschen stehen können: Wer sind wir ?“ Identifying with others, in various different ways, can be extremely important for living in postmodern society. In today’s postmodern times identities are ever changing, overlapping and they are also situation specific. This paper intends to explore the possibility of describing cultural identity emerging in contemporary postmodern world. I begin with conceptualization of the term “Culture”. The main purpose of this work is to deal with cultural identity in postmodern age and hence I have taken liberty to use the words postmodern, postmodernity and postmodernism synonymously. The term postmodern consists of a whole plethora of interpretations and it derives its origin from modernism. Hence I start with description of modernism in chapter two. Thereafter comparative analysis of modernism and postmodernism is presented. Postmodern age is an age of dilemmas. This era has given momentum to identity culture. As mentioned earlier more and more people are worried about their identities and various discourses at various levels are taking place. But simultaneously cultural identity in this era is getting fragmented. Hence discussion in divided two parts namely - identity culture and cultural identity - in postmodern times. I have deliberately restricted my sphere to philosophical and cultural fields.
Author : Madan Sarup
Publisher : Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 13,48 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Culture
ISBN : 9780748607792
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 andnarrative; and the general condition of postmodernity.
Author : Mike Featherstone
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 21,16 MB
Release : 1995-09-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1848609167
Written with the clarity and insight that readers have come to expect of Mike Featherstone Undoing Culture is a notable contribution to our understanding of modernism and postmodernism. It explores the formation and deformation of the cultural sphere and the effects on culture of globalization. Against many orthodox postmodernist accounts,the author argues that it is wrong to regard our present state of fragmentation and dislocation as an epochal break. Existing interdependencies and power balances are not so easily broken down. Nonetheless some important cultural changes have occurred since World War II. In particular, the book examines some of the processes which have uncoupled culture from the social; the erosion of the ideal of the heroic life in the face of the onslaught from consumerism and the deformation of culture; and the rise of new forms of identity development. It explains why culture has gained a more significant role in everyday life and also why it has come to preoccupy the Academy in recent years. Mike Featherstone looks at the effects of the multiplication of cultural goods and images on our ability to read culture and develop fixed meanings and relationships. He highlights the importance of the global in attempting to cope with the objective difficulties of cultural overproduction. The book concludes that the rise of non-Western nation-states with different cultural frames produces different reactions of modernity, making it more appropriate to refer to global modernities.
Author : Jonathan Epstein
Publisher : Blackwell Publishing
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 45,41 MB
Release : 1998-08-17
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781557868510
Bridging sociology and cultural studies, this collection of essays examines today's youth, their music and cultural identities.
Author : Madan Sarup
Publisher :
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 33,54 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780820318677
The issues he explores: Identity and narrative, identity and difference, identity and the unconscious, culture and identity, consumer identity and commodity esthetics, race, ethnicity and nation-ness, post-colonial criticism, the conditions of postmodernity.
Author : Paula M. L. Moya
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 25,41 MB
Release : 2000-12-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520223493
This collection of ten essays argues that identity is not just socially constructed but has real epistemic and political consequences. They examine the way theory, politics and activism clash with or complement each other, providing an alternative to the widely influential understandings of identity.
Author : Linda Nicholson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 23,19 MB
Release : 1995-09-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521475716
Social Postmodernism defends a postmodern perspective anchored in the politics of the new social movements. The volume preserves the focus on the politics of the body, race, gender, and sexuality as elaborated in postmodern approaches. But these essays push postmodern analysis in a particular direction: toward a social postmodernism which integrates the micro-social concerns of the new social movements with an institutional and cultural analysis in the service of a transformative political vision.
Author : Robert G. Dunn
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 15,30 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816630738
Significant to Dunn's critique of poststructuralist and postmodern theories is his application of George Herbert Mead as a means of theorizing identity and difference. The focus on postmodernity, rather than postmodernism grounds his analysis of identity and difference both materially and socially.