Postmodern Texts and Emotional Audiences : Identity and the Politics of Feeling
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Comparative Cultural Studies
ISBN-10
1557534799
ISBN-13
9781557534798
Publisher
Purdue University Press
Imprint
Purdue University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 1st, 2007
Print length
227 Pages
Weight
380 grams
Dimensions
22.70 x 16.10 x 1.40 cms
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Analyzes contemporary texts that bond together two seemingly antithetical sensibilities: the sentimental and the postmodern. This book presents case studies of audience responses to ""The Piano"", ""Kiss of the Spider Woman"", and ""Northern Exposure"". It argues that sentimental postmodernism deepened leftist political engagement.
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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