| After Yesterday's Crash: The Avant-Pop Anthology Contributor(s): McCaffery, Larry (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0140240853 ISBN-13: 9780140240856 Publisher: Penguin Books OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 1995 Annotation: One of the foremost champions of postmodern and cyberpunk fiction has compiled an anthology that showcases a new subsersive aesthetic sensibility called "avant-pop". Each of these 32 stories draws on media-produced images, slogans, characters, and narrative archetypes from popular culture to convey the radical turn toward over-stimulation and hyper-consumption in American life. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Anthologies (multiple Authors) - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 5.05" W x 7.75" (0.58 lbs) 384 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Some of the hottest writers of the 90's shared a subversive aesthetic sensibility, "avant-pop," that drew on the forms, images, slogans, characters, and narrative archetypes of our multidimensional, information-dense culture--cartoons, films, music videos, advertising, and rock music--to explore and critically examine that culture. Each of these thirty-two works delves into the deeper metaphorical implications of this pop cultural imagery to convey a turn toward overstimulation and hyper-consumption in American life, and to explore issues of personality and identity. This provocative, stylistically experimental work is truly literature for the twenty-first century. |