Postmodern Texts and Emotional Audiences : Identity and the Politics of Feeling Paperback / softback
by Kimberly Chabot Davis
Part of the Comparative Cultural Studies series
Paperback / softback
Description
Chabot Davis analyzes contemporary texts that bond together two seemingly antithetical sensibilities: the sentimental and the postmodern.
Ranging across multiple media and offering a methodological union of textual analysis and reception study, Chabot Davis presents case studies of audience responses.
Chabot Davis argues that sentimental postmodernism deepened leftist political engagement by moving audiences to identify emotionally with people across the divisions of gender, sexual identity, race, and ethnicity.
This study questions the critical equation of postmodernism with apocalyptic nihilism and political apathy.
The book also challenges the assumption that sentimentality and sympathy are inherently conservative and imperialistic.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:227 pages
- Publisher:Purdue University Press
- Publication Date:30/07/2007
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- ISBN:9781557534798
Information
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:227 pages
- Publisher:Purdue University Press
- Publication Date:30/07/2007
- Category:
- ISBN:9781557534798
