The mourning after : : attending the wake of postmodernism / / edited by Neil Brooks and Josh Toth.

• Superior document: Postmodern studies ; 40
• TeilnehmendeR: Brooks, Neil 1962-; Toth, Josh.
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Postmodern studies ; 40.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (319 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Have we moved beyond postmodernism? Did postmodernism lose its oppositional value when it became a cultural dominant? While focusing on questions such as these, the articles in this collection consider the possibility that the death of a certain version of postmodernism marks a renewed attempt to re-negotiate and perhaps re-embrace many of the cultural, literary and theoretical assumptions that postmodernism seemly denied outright. Including contributions from some of the leading scholars in the field – N. Katherine Hayles, John D. Caputo, Paul Maltby, Jane Flax, among others – this collection ultimately comes together to perform a certain work of mourning. Through their explorations of this current epistemological shift in narrative and theoretical production, these articles work to “get over” postmodernism while simultaneously celebrating a certain postmodern inheritance, an inheritance that can offer us important avenues to understanding and affecting contemporary culture and society.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction: A Wake and Renewed? / Josh Toth and Neil Brooks -- Postmodernism in a Fundamentalist Arena / Paul Maltby -- Postmodernism in the Age of Distracting Discourses / Robert McLaughlin -- Attending to Suffering in/at the Wake of Postmodernism / Jennifer Geddes -- Soul Service: Foucault’s “Care of the Self” as Politics and Ethics / Jane Flax -- Mood Swings: The Aesthetics of Ambient Emergence / N. Katherine Hayles and Todd Gannon -- New York, Los Angeles, and Other Toxicities: Revisiting Postmodernism in Rushdie’s Fury and Shalimar the Clown / Gavin Keulks -- Nothing to Write Home About: Impossible Reception in Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves / William G. Little -- Turncoat: Why Jonathan Franzen Finally Said “No” to Po-Mo / Robert Rebein -- Serving Pi(e) at the Wake of Postmodernism: Mathematics and Mysticism at the End of the 20th Century / Clayton Dion -- Derrida and the Ethics of Mourning After / Dawne McCance -- Postmodernism and the Crisis of Belief: Neo-Realism vs. the Real / Clayton Crockett -- The Weakness of God: A Theology of the Event / John D. Caputo -- Contributors.