Identity, Culture and the Postmodern World - Softcover

Sarup, Madan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0820318671 ISBN 13: 9780820318677

Publisher: Univ of Georgia Pr, 1996

Synopsis

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.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

The issues he explores: Identity and narrative, identity and difference, identity and the unconscious, culture and identity, consumer identity and commodity esthetics, race, ethnicity and nation-ness, post-colonial criticism, the conditions of postmodernity.

About the Author:

MADAN SARUP was a lecturer at Goldsmith's College in London. He is the author of numerous books on culture, race, and education, including The Politics of Multiracial Education, Education and the Ideologies of Racism, and Jacques Lacan.

About this edition

• Publisher: Univ of Georgia Pr
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0820318671
• ISBN 13: 9780820318677
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192
• Editor: Raja Tasneem