Sweet La-La Land by Robert Campbell

Sweet La-La Land by Robert Campbell

A readable analysis of postmodernity that provides a cultural context for its rise.

Though the term postmodern looms large on our cultural landscape, rarely do we find a systematic and impartial discussion of the circumstances of its ascendance. Identity Crises offers just such an accounting. In this book, Robert G. Dunn situates the intellectual currency of the postmodern within the larger context of social and cultural change shaping the movement over the past several decades. Along the way, he offers a necessary corrective to both the sociological and historical shortcomings of cultural criticism and the cultural myopia of social science in considering the postmodern world.

Dunn explains contemporary culture and contemporary cultural criticism as part of a distinct historical moment, one that entails new social relations as a consequence of new means of production. In place of prevailing cultural and political constructions, Dunn proposes a social relational approach that explicitly recognizes the structural and situational contexts of identity formation. He conceptualizes issues of identity and difference in terms of social, cultural, and political transformations in the transition from modern to postmodern society.

This provides a socio-historical perspective through which to consider the impact of consumption, mass media, globalization, and new social movements on identity-forming processes.

Unique to this undertaking and crucial to Dunn's critique of poststructuralist and postmodern theories is his application of the theory of George Herbert Mead as a more effective means of theorizing identity and difference. Dunn's focus on postmodernity as opposed topostmodernism serves to ground the analysis of identity and difference materially and socially.

Learned, evenhanded, and enlightening, Identity Crises is an essential demonstration of the connections between cultural theory and criticism, contemporary culture, and sociological analysis.

Campbell, Robert: - Robert Campbell is a queer poet living and writing in rural Kentucky. He is the author of Monster Colloquia (Hellbox Publications; 2020) and In the Herald of Improbable Misfortunes (Etchings Press; 2018). His poetry and criticism have appeared in Tupelo Quarterly; The Collagist; Columbia Poetry Review; River Styx; Ninth Letter; Asheville Poetry Review; Tinderbox Poetry Journal; Sundog Lit; Zone 3; The Adroit Journal; and many other journals. Twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize; short-listed for the 2015 Black Warrior Review Poetry Contest; third place winner of the 2013 River Styx International Poetry Contest; and previous winner of the Flo Gault Poetry Prize through Sarabande Books; Robert holds an MFA in poetry from Murray State University and an MS in library science from the University of Kentucky. He lives with his partner and animals along a winding country road with a great wealth of trees; goats; and old barns.

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ISBN 13	9780671732363
ISBN 10	0671732366
Title	Sweet La-La Land
Author	Robert Campbell
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Prentice Hall (a Pearson Education company)
Year published	1991-12-31
Number of pages	10
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