Framing the margins: the social logic of postmodern culture/​ P. B. Harper

• Framing the margins : the social logic of postmodern culture / Phillip Brian Harper.

Author

• Harper, Phillip Brian.

Published

• New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.

Content Types

• text

Carrier Types

• volume

Physical Description

• 233 p. ; 22 cm.

Subjects

• Gesellschaft.
• Literatur.
• Marginalität.
• Postmoderne.
• Soziale Probleme (Motiv)
• Littérature américaine -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique.
• Littérature et société -- États-Unis.
• Postmodernisme (Littérature) -- États-Unis.
• Problèmes sociaux dans la littérature.
• American literature.
• Literature and society.
• Postmodernism (Literature)
• Social problems in literature.
• Soziale Probleme.
• American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
• Postmodernism (Literature) -- United States.
• Literature and society -- United States.
• United States.
• USA.
• Culture Postmodernism
• United States

Time Period

• x-x-

Contents

• Introduction : the postmodern, the marginal, and the minor
• Signification, movement, and resistance in the novels of Nathanael West
• Anaïs Nin, Djuna Barnes, and the critical feminist unconscious
• Gwendolyn Brooks and the vicissitudes of black female subjectivity
• "To become one and yet many" : psychic fragmentation and aesthetic synthesis in Ralph Ellison's Invisible man
• Postmodern narrative/biographical imperative
• Coda : categorical collapse and the possibility of "commitment".

Notes

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-223) and index.

Access Conditions

• Online version licensed for access by U. of T. users.

Other Form

• Online version Harper, Phillip Brian. Framing the margins. New York : Oxford University Press, 1994

Language

• English

ISBN