Identity, Culture and the Postmodern World - Softcover

Sarup, Madan

 
9780820318677: Identity, Culture and the Postmodern World

Synopsis

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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Review

An indispensable guide to those interested in identity though it use will go beyond this. -- Dave Merryweather An indispensable guide to those interested in identity though it use will go beyond this.

From the Back Cover

The issues he explores: Identity and narrative, identity and difference, identity and the unconscious, culture and identity, consumer identity and commodity esthetics, race, ethnicity and nation-ness, post-colonial criticism, the conditions of postmodernity.

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ISBN 10:  074860779X ISBN 13:  9780748607792
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 1996
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