Identity, Culture and the Postmodern World
1st Edition
Published on 24. June 2021
208 pages
978-1-4744-7227-2 (ISBN)
Description
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 and narrative; and the general condition of postmodernity.
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Madan Sarup
Identity, Culture and the Postmodern World
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Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Beginning and the End
- Acknowledgements
- An Introduction: Writing the Self
- 1 The Home, the Journey and the Border
- 2 Identity and Narrative
- 3 Identity and the Unconscious
- 4 Identity and Difference
- 5 Foucault: Discipline and the Self
- 6 Foucault: Sex and the Technologies of the Self
- 7 The Condition of Postmodernity
- 8 Baudrillard: Images and Identity in Consumer Society
- 9 Consumer Identity and Commodity Aesthetics
- 10 National Identity: 'Englishness' and Education
- 11 Imperialism and Culture
- 12 'Race', Ethnicity and Nation-ness
- Index
