Postmodern Texts and Emotional Audiences: Identity and the Politics of Feeling
Kimberly Chabot Davis
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.
หมวดหมู่:
ปี:
2007
สำนักพิมพ์:
Purdue Univ Pr
ภาษา:
english
จำนวนหน้า:
227
ISBN 10:
1557534799
ISBN 13:
9781557534798
ไฟล์:
PDF, 17.42 MB
IPFS:
,
english, 2007