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Postmodernism
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Postmodernism – Significant Events August 6, 1945 - atomic explosion
over Hiroshima, Japan The conclusion of World War II
The Korean War (Conflict?) The Cold War of the 1950s
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Postmodernism – Significant Events The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 Identity Movements of the 1960s:
Feminism, Civil Rights/Black Power The assassinations, in 1968, of
Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy
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Postmodernism – Significant Events The Vietnam War (Conflict?) The AIDS epidemic Identity Movements: Gay, Lesbian,
Queer movements, Postcolonial movements and minority literature.
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Postmodernism Dissolution of the transparency of history and tradition
Multiculturalism, competing views of history and tradition
Shift from universal histories.
History and identity politics: who can write? for whom? from what standpoint?
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Modernism vs Postmodernism
Master Narratives and Metanarratives of history, culture and national identity; myths of cultural and ethnic origin
Suspicion and rejection of Master Narratives; local narratives, ironic deconstruction of master narratives: counter-myths of origin
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Modernism vs Postmodernism
Faith in "Grand Theory" (totalizing explanations in history, science and culture) to represent all knowledge and explain everything.
Rejection of totalizing theories; pursuit of localizing and contingent theories
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Faith in, and myths of, social and cultural unity, hierarchies of social-class and ethnic/national values, seemingly clear bases for unity.
Social and cultural pluralism, disunity, unclear bases for social/national/ethnic unity.
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Modernism vs Postmodernism
Master narrative of progress through science and technology.
Skepticism of progress, anti-technology reactions, new age religions
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Sense of unified, centered self; "individualism," unified identity.
Sense of fragmentation and decentered self; multiple, conflicting identities.
Modernism vs Postmodernism
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Idea of "the family" as central unit of social order: model of the middle-class, nuclear family.
Alternative family units, alternatives to middle-class marriage model, multiple identities for couplings and childraising.
Modernism vs Postmodernism
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Faith and personal investment in big politics (Nation-State, party).
Trust and investment in micro-politics, identity politics, local politics, institutional power struggles.
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Faith in the "real" beyond media and representations; authenticity of "originals"
Hyper-reality, image saturation, simulacra seem more powerful than the "real"; images and texts with no prior "original". "As seen on TV" and "as seen on MTV" are more powerful than unmediated experience.