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Article: Postmodernism is Not What You Think.(Review)
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- The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology
- Article date:
- February 1, 2000
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CHARLES LEMERT, Postmodernism is Not What You Think. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers, 1997, 185 p.
Unemployed, despite completing a doctorate in sociology a year earlier, I found myself wandering through a library at the University of British Columbia one afternoon last summer when I spotted this book lying on a shelf. In seeing its title I said aloud: "Oh no, not another book about postmodernism." What is the relevance of this personal experience to this book review? For one, Lemert deploys similar autobiographical material throughout his book, which is a collection of new and previously published essays stitched together to form a coherent whole. Most of ...