Postmodernism

Thawing the Snow Queen; Feminism in Science Fiction Here’s the truth, women hate being society’s puppet; so Joan D. Vinge snipped her strings in the novel The Snow Queen. This author made Science Fiction into a tool. The genre allows controversial issues to be stripped and placed into a different setting; it probes the reader to reflect on his or her own beliefs--maybe even challenge those perceptions. Which is why Feminism could ripen under the pages of its wings. That ideology of equality…

In The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger he uses the novel to make social commentary upon humanity’s desire. He also shows humanity’s desire to achieve intimacy and connection within the postmodern world. Through humanity’s desire he shows the different types of relationships and intimacy Holden attempts. Salinger also shows the role of sexuality and how Holden’s sexual relationships differ from his nonsexual. Salinger comments upon a postmodern family and its meaning to the protagonist.…

The reader of The Inheritance of Loss is continually expected to shift between worlds: to travel from the lonely mountainside of Kalimpong to the underground kitchens of Manhattan restaurants, from the knickknack-laden drawing room of Noni and Lola to the barren bedroom the judge rented in London. The reader needs to be willing to travel between these worlds, times and cultures, and may become as confused and puzzled as the characters in the novel. The difference between a traveller and a…

1.1 Why Postcolonialism? It is difficult to say what postcolonialism exactly is. There is no ‘tradition’ per se as there is a philosophical tradition for deconstruction or psychoanalytical theory. In anti-colonial movements and postmodern critique of colonialism as a project of modernity one can find ideas that preceded postcolonial theory. The most important feature of postcolonialism is a shift in the dominant ways in which relations between Western and non-Western people and their worlds were…

Much like Cage, Monk found significance in spiritual discovery and Buddhism as applied to her art-making and the ecological themes explored in her performances. (Monk and Marranca, 2014). Simone Forti, a multi-faceted artist in her own right, refused to be defined by one discipline alone. Through her creative endeavors, Forti performed the role of dancer, choreographer, visual artist, musician, and writer. In synthesizing these endeavors, she developed a series of “dance constructions”—defined…

clients’ health. This paper will discuss the result of two interviews conducted in order to analyze a family (the Croods) using the Calgary Family Assessment Model (CFAM). Case Study The CFAM is a model that is embedded within larger worldviews of postmodernism, biology of cognition and feminism. According to Wright…

“Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re gonna get”, one of the most famous lines of the American classic film, Forrest Gump. The tragicomedy centers around the story of the fictional character Forrest Gump, who witnesses and influences important moments in contemporary American history. The film follows this simple-minded man, who represents the ultimate American dream in a land of opportunity. Zemeckis begins his movie with a tracking shot of a white feather. This feather…

between what I did and did not believe, and if I could find the truth of Christianity which had been eluding me for so long. In this course, I found that the topics of Classical Christian Theism, Deism, Traditionalism, New Age Philosophy, and Postmodernism had all influenced my own, current understanding. And, through studying these, I realized how I had arrived at my current beliefs, and how to continue my journey for truth. Growing up, Classical Christian Theism was my dominant…

Huyssen is well known for his discourses on international modernism and postmodernism, and is currently working on a book compilation of his own essays on contemporary visual arts. This article was written for MIT Press Journal’s Grey Room No. 23. “Grey Room brings together scholarly and theoretical articles from the fields of…

Introduction Work is said to be humanistic, an essential part of being human, and satisfying work is a primary goal of the majority in our society. The benchmark of a democracy is that citizens have a participatory voice, translating to (at least notional) control over their destiny, but the generations-old bureaucratic work environment has taken away control of work and organizational decision-making from workers as management focuses on realizing profit over supporting workers’ needs. The…