Identity Politics: The Dialectics of Cynicism and Joy and the Movement to Talking Back and Breaking Bread
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https://doi.org/10.11575/jet.v32i1.52505Abstract
The author argues that critical pedagogues can overcome their postmodern cynicism by connecting areas of personal and public narrative to forms of alienation, oppression, and subordination. Whether narrative is about structural elements of schools or society (such as religion) the author argues that to overcome one's own cynicism one has to joyfully and symbolically talk back and break bread - making the enlightenment and modernistic ideals of freedom, justice, and liberation a genuine possibility. The fusion of modernism and postmodemism and cynicism and joy intertwined with personal narrative becomes a "method" to answer the question critical theorists always have to ask in order to remain honest with themselves: To what end do we do what we do?
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