{"product_id":"9780822385455","title":"TEST1 Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the Emergence of the Postmodern","description":"\u003ci\u003eUtopia Limited\u003c\/i\u003e is an original, engaging account of how postmodernism emerged from the political and cultural upheaval of the 1960s. Marianne DeKoven argues that aspects of sixties radical politics and culture simultaneously embodied the full, final flowering of the modern and the beginning of the postmodern. Analyzing classic sixties texts, DeKoven shows where the utopian master narratives underlying the radical and countercultural movements gave way to the “utopia limited” of the postmodern as a range of competing political values and desires came to the fore. She identifies the pivots where the modern was superseded by the nascent postmodern: where modern mass culture was replaced by postmodern popular culture, modern egalitarianism morphed into postmodern populism, and modern individualism fragmented into postmodern politics and cultures of subjectivity.\u003cp\u003eDeKoven rigorously analyzes a broad array of cultural and political texts important in the sixties—from popular favorites such as William S. Burroughs’s \u003ci\u003eNaked Lunch\u003c\/i\u003e to political manifestoes including \u003ci\u003eThe Port Huron Statement, \u003c\/i\u003ethe founding document of SDS (Students for a Democratic Society). She examines texts that overtly discuss the conflict in Vietnam, Black Power, and second-wave feminism—including Frances FitzGerald’s \u003ci\u003eFire in the Lake, \u003c\/i\u003eJames Baldwin’s \u003ci\u003eThe Fire Next Time, \u003c\/i\u003eand Shulamith Firestone’s\u003ci\u003e The Dialectic of Sex; \u003c\/i\u003eexperimental pieces such as The Living Theatre’s \u003ci\u003eParadise Now;\u003c\/i\u003e influential philosophical works including Roland Barthes’s \u003ci\u003eMythologies\u003c\/i\u003e and Herbert Marcuse’s \u003ci\u003eOne-Dimensional Man\u003c\/i\u003e; and explorations of Las Vegas, the prime location of postmodernity. Providing extensive annotated bibliographies on both the sixties and postmodernism, \u003ci\u003eUtopia Limited\u003c\/i\u003e is an invaluable resource for understanding the impact of that tumultuous decade on the present.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47080747499760,"sku":"9780822385455","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780822385455_p0.jpg?v=1763757104","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780822385455","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}