Colleagues,
Some of you may be interested in the book below which was recently published
in p/b and h/b by Routledge.
Susannah Radstone, The Sexual Politics of Time: Confession, Nostalgia, Memory
Synopsis
Looking at a diverse range of texts including Marilyn French's "The Women's
Room", Philip Roth's "Patrimony", the writings of Walter Benjamin and Fredric
Jameson, and films such as "Cinema Paradiso", Susannah Radstone argues that
though time has been foregrounded in theories of postmodernism, those
theories have ignored the question of time and sexual difference."The Sexual
Politics of Time" proposes that the contemporary western world has witnessed
a shift from the age of confession to the era of memory. In a series of
chapters on confession, nostalgia, the 'memories of boyhood' film and the
memoir, Susannah Radstone sets out to complicate this claim. Developing her
argument through psychoanalytic theory, she proposes that an attention to
time and sexual difference raises questions not only about the analysis and
characterization of texts, but also about how cultural epochs are mapped
through time. "The Sexual Politics of Time" will be of interest to students
and researchers of time, memory, difference and cultural change, in subjects
such as Media and Cultural Studies, Sociology, Film Studies.
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