{"product_id":"another-tale-to-tell","title":"Another Tale to Tell","description":"Through his work as a fiction writer, critic and activist, Fred Pfeil has sought to extend the progressive possibilities within contemporary American culture. Idiosyncratic and provocative, \u003ci\u003eAnother Tale to Tell\u003c\/i\u003e moves from evaluations of politically engaged texts and practices-such as Hans Haacke's deconstructive artwork, Chester Himes' Harlem police thrillers, 'cyberpunk' and the feminist science fiction of Octavia Butler-to considerations of the history, dynamics and potential of postmodern culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePfeil's work on postmodernity is distinct from the spate of their works on the subject in its insistence on the social base of postmodern practices within today's professional managerial class, and in his endeavour both to use and to criticize Marxist, feminist, psychoanalytic and poststructuralist thought in order to illuminate our present political impasses and openings.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom his audacious reading of the film \u003ci\u003eRiver's Edge\u003c\/i\u003e as the terminus of the vexed history of bourgeois narrative, and his analysis of Reaganite oedipality in \u003ci\u003eBack to the Future\u003c\/i\u003e, to his unsettling meditation on the 'poststructuralist paradise' embodied in contemporary SF, Pfeil sorts through a welter of contemporary cultural texts and practices for the glimmerings of a postmodern narrative and politics that may truly be 'another tale to tell'.","brand":"Verso Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":56797298590040,"sku":"9780860919926","price":25.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780860919926.jpg?v=1772038846","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/another-tale-to-tell","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}