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Tables of Contents for Politics of Postmodernism
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
General Editor's Preface
vii
 
Acknowledgements
ix
 
Representing the postmodern
1
28
What is postmodernism?
1
1
Representation and its politics
2
8
Whose postmodernism?
10
13
Postmodernity, postmodernism, and modernism
23
6
Postmodernist representation
29
30
De-naturalizing the natural
29
11
Photographic discourse
40
4
Telling stories: fiction and history
44
15
Re-presenting the past
59
30
`Total history' de-totalized
59
8
Knowing the past in the present
67
8
The archive as text
75
14
The politics of parody
89
25
Parodic postmodern representation
89
8
Double-coded politics
97
5
Postmodern film?
102
12
Text/image border tensions
114
23
The paradoxes of photography
114
6
The ideological arena of photo-graphy
120
10
The politics of address
130
7
Postmodernism and feminisms
137
28
Politicizing desire
138
8
Feminist postmodernist parody
146
10
The private and the public
156
9
Epilogue: The Postmodern...in Retrospect
165
17
`What was postmodernism?'
165
7
Internationalizing the postmodern...and colliding with the postcolonial
172
4
Irony versus nostalgia: postmodernism and queer theory and practice
176
3
The world, the text, and the critique
179
3
Concluding Note: Some Directed Reading
182
3
Bibliography
185
28
Index
213