The Mourning After: Attending the Wake of PostmodernismNeil Edward Brooks, Josh Toth Have we moved beyond postmodernism? Did postmodernism lose its oppositional value when it became a cultural dominant? While focusing on questions such as these, the articles in this collection consider the possibility that the death of a certain version of postmodernism marks a renewed attempt to re-negotiate and perhaps re-embrace many of the cultural, literary and theoretical assumptions that postmodernism seemly denied outright. Including contributions from some of the leading scholars in the field - N. Katherine Hayles, John D. Caputo, Paul Maltby, Jane Flax, among others - this collection ultimately comes together to perform a certain work of mourning. Through their explorations of this current epistemological shift in narrative and theoretical production, these articles work to "get over" postmodernism while simultaneously celebrating a certain postmodern inheritance, an inheritance that can offer us important avenues to understanding and affecting contemporary culture and society. |
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Postmodernism in the Age of Distracting | 53 |
Foucaults Care of the Self | 79 |
Viewing and Reading at the Wake | 99 |
Impossible | 169 |
Why Jonathan Franzen Finally Said | 201 |
Mourning and Praying at the Wake | 249 |
A Theology of | 285 |
Contributors | 303 |
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