A01=Jeffrey Ebbeson
African American Identity
African American Literary
African American Literary Tradition
African American Tradition
Author_Jeffrey Ebbeson
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contemporary American fiction
cultural criticism
DeLillo's Book
DeLillo's Text
DeLillo's White Noise
DeLillo's Work
DeLillo’s Book
DeLillo’s Text
DeLillo’s White Noise
DeLillo’s Work
Descriptive Residue
Detective Fiction
Detective Tale
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ethical grounding in postmodern novels
Free Indirect Discourse
Haitian Voodoo
Henri Toulouse Lautrec
Hitler Studies
identity politics literature
Jeffrey Ebbesen
Jes Grew
Lisible Text
literary theory
Mixed Dish
Mumbo Jumbo
narrative ethics
political relativism
Postmodern Category
Raymond Chandlers
Toulouse Lautrec
Vincent Van Gogh
White Noise
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780415975445
- Weight: 476g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 02 Feb 2006
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The book analyzes Ishmael Reed [Mumbo Jumbo], Kathy Acker [The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec by Henri Toulouse Lautrec], and Don Delillo [White Noise], three authors whom critics cite as quintessentially postmodern. For these critics such works possess formal narrative and/or content qualities at odds with modernism. In particular, according to influential thinkers like Fredric Jameson, postmodern works possess narrative form and/or content which eschews reality, and embody a fundamental paradigm shift from the politically committed ideology of modernity and modernism to the politically relativistic ideology of postmodernity and postmodernism. The book contends that while the above authors do possess numerous so-called postmodern qualities, their critical forms and/or contents remain ethically and politically grounded. As most postmodern theory rejects such grounding, its discovery in these prototypical postmodern novels suggests problems with the postmodern category itself.
