Ecstatic Consumption

While modernity aspired to "fix" radical alienation through aesthetics by assigning an ethical value to narratives, contemporary literature and the arts are no longer immune to the impact of commodity culture amplified by globalization. In the world of commodity, corporate logic, and cyborgs, the very notion of identity is frequently turned into a spectacle. Yet, it is also simultaneously mobilized by the search for what Jean Baudrillard describes as the "ecstatic" form that materializes aesthetics. Ecstatic Consumption: The Spectacle of Global Dystopia in Contemporary American Literature investigates not only how these transformations affect gender, racial, and class relations, but also how they impact the representation of historical events.

שנה

2016

שפה

English

הוצאה

Cambridge Scholars Publishing

מהדורות

1

עמודים

256

ISBN

9781443897969

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata