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Postmodernism in Pieces

By Matthew Mullins

Postmodernism in Pieces

By Matthew Mullins

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Postmodernism in Pieces performs a postmortem on what is perhaps the most contested paradigm in literary studies. In the wake of a critical consensus proclaiming its death, Matthew Mullins breaks postmodernism down into its most fundamental orthodoxies and reassembles it piece by piece in light of recent theoretical developments in Actor-Network-Theory, object-oriented philosophy, new materialism, and posthumanism. In the last two decades postmodernism has collapsed under the weight of the very phenomena it set out to deconstruct: language, whiteness, masculinity, class, the academy. Recasting these categories as social constructs has done little to alleviate their material effects. Through detailed analyses of everyday objects in novels by Leslie Marmon Silko, Toni Morrison, Jonathan Lethem, John Barth, David Foster Wallace, Don DeLillo, and Julia Alvarez, Mullins argues that what makes fiction postmodern is its refusal to accept "social" explanations for problems facing a given culture, and its tendency instead to examine everyday things and people as constituent pieces of larger networks. The result is a new story of postmodernism, one that reimagines postmodernism as a starting point for a new mode of literary history rather than a finish line for modernity.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
244
Release Date:
2016-08-01
Publication Date:
2016-08-01
Publisher:
OXFORD UNIV PR
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0190459506
ISBN13:
9780190459505
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
443 g
Height:
145 cm
Width:
222 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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