Pramod K. Nayar

Gebundenes Buch

Extreme in Contemporary Culture

States of Vulnerability

Beschreibung

Examines extremity as a political and cultural phenomenon in the late 20th and early 21st century. It argues that we can discern a 'continuum of extremes/extremity' on which we may locate practices as diverse as Abu Ghraib, extreme sports, biomedical TV series and horror films.

Autor

Pramod K Nayar is Professor of English at the University of Hyderabad, India. His work in postcolonial studies includes Colonial Voices: The Discourses of Empire (2012), Writing Wrongs: The Cultural Construction of Human Rights in India (2012), English Writing and India, 1600-1920:Colonizing Aesthetics (2008)and Postcolonial Literature: An Introduction (2008). His interests in cultural studies include superheroes, consumer culture, 'cool', posthumanism and new media cultures, and his work here includes Posthumanism ( 2013)An Introduction to Cultural Studies (2008), Reading Culture: Theory, Praxis, Politics (2006) and Virtual Worlds: Culture and Politics in the Age of Cybertechnology (2004) besides numerous essays on cyberculture and, more recently, on human rights narratives.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 437g
• ISBN-13: 9781783483655
• ISBN-10: 1783483652
• Artikelnr.: 42810052