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The Planetary Clock - Antipodean Time and Spherical Postmodern Fictions (Hardcover)
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The Planetary Clock - Antipodean Time and Spherical Postmodern Fictions (Hardcover)
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The theme of The Planetary Clock is the representation of time in
postmodern culture and the way temporality as a global phenomenon
manifests itself differently across an antipodean axis. To trace
postmodernism in an expansive spatial and temporal arc, from its
formal experimentation in the 1960s to environmental concerns in
the twenty-first century, is to describe a richer and more complex
version of this cultural phenomenon. Exploring different scales of
time from a Southern Hemisphere perspective, with a special
emphasis on issues of Indigeneity and the Anthropocene, The
Planetary Clock offers a wide-ranging, revisionist account of
postmodernism, reinterpreting literature, film, music, and visual
art of the post-1960 period within a planetary framework. By
bringing the culture of Australia and New Zealand into dialogue
with other Western narratives, it suggests how an antipodean
impulse, involving the transposition of the world into different
spatial and temporal dimensions, has long been an integral (if
generally occluded) aspect of postmodernism. Taking its title from
a Florentine clock designed in 1510 to measure worldly time
alongside the rotation of the planets, The Planetary Clock ranges
across well-known American postmodernists (John Barth, Toni
Morrison) to more recent science fiction writers (Octavia Butler,
Richard Powers), while bringing the US tradition into juxtaposition
with both its English (Philip Larkin, Ian McEwan) and Australian
(Les Murray, Alexis Wright) counterparts. By aligning cultural
postmodernism with music (Messiaen, Ligeti, Birtwistle), the visual
arts (Hockney, Blackman, Fiona Hall), and cinema (Rohmer, Haneke,
Tarantino), this volume enlarges our understanding of global
postmodernism for the twenty-first century.
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