Postmodern Political Communication

The Fringe Challenges the Center
Herausgeber: King, Andrew

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Analyses of political dialogue have traditionally concentrated on structures of government or social movements, drawing clear boundaries between the individual and the state. In its examination of the marginal fringe groups struggling to secure power, Postmodern Political Communication broadens our conception of political behavior and places new emphasis on the generation and invention of politics. This volume's contributors examine the discourse of deviant, oppressed, and powerless groups from the point of view of empowerment; that is, how do such outsider groups engage the center and how are they able to use mass media to gain political power? The authors study the discourse of those who seem most alienated from the formal political process: religious cults, youth gangs, submerged culture groups, and illegal aliens. Their analyses concentrate on the ways in which postmodern discourse legitimizes distribution of power in the social order, and disclose the ideological and political messages that underlie ordinary nonpolitical expression. With its explorations of communicative theory and implications for praxis, this work will appeal to a large audience of scholars and practitioners in political science and communications.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juli 1992
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 484g
• ISBN-13: 9780275938406
• ISBN-10: 0275938409
• Artikelnr.: 25567797

Autorenporträt

ANDREW KING is Professor and Chair of the Department of Speech Communication at Louisiana State University. He has authored two previous books. Professor King's academic interests lie in the areas of communication and power, and medieval and renaissance rhetorical theory.

Inhaltsangabe

Series Foreword by Robert E. Denton, Jr. Introduction: The Great Power
Shift by Andrew King What is Postmodern Rhetoric? by Andrew King Postmodern
Forerunners by Andrew King The Higher Culture as the Site of Struggle by
Andrew King Marginalization, the Body, and Empowerment: The Rhetoric of the
Obese and Little People in America by Kenneth Zagacki The Reciprocal Power
of Group Identities and Social Style: A Note on a Specimen Deviant Youth
Group by Calvin Morrill and William Bailey Sanctuary Confronts the Court:
An Unrepentant Prophet by Jeanne E. Clark Chicago Utopianism in the
Southwest by Richard J. Jensen and John C. Hammerback The Goddess of
Democracy as Icon in the Chinese Student Revolt by Kenneth C. Petress Ma
And Sheela: Media Power through Radical Discourse by Catherine Ann Collins
Understanding Fandom Rhetorically: The Case of "Beauty and the Beast" by
Kari Whittenberger-Keith Purchasing Identity: Advertising and the Embrace
and Celebration of Self by Charles Urban Larson A Critical Look at the
Postmodern Future by Andrew King Selected Bibliography Index