Identity, Culture and the Postmodern World / / Madan Sarup.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Sarup, Madan,
• MitwirkendeR: Brooker, Peter,; Raja, Tasneem,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©1996
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781474472272; 9783110780475
• DOI: 10.1515/9781474472272
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Madan Sarup.

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.