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Beyond Modernity: Irony, Fantasy, and the Challenge to Grand Narratives in Subcomandante Marcos's Tales

2011; University of California Press; Volume: 27; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1525/msem.2011.27.1.177

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Daniela Di Piramo,

Asian Culture and Media Studies

Modernity has long been under attack: eminent scholars, including Heidegger, Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault, have engaged in intense critiques involving the dominance of ideology, the use of language, and the role of reason in modernity. Heavily critical of vanguards and “armchair revolutionaries,” Subcomandante Marcos challenges the necessity for a grand narrative and a mighty narrator. But although he has been relatively successful in challenging the conventional approach to politics, his discourse reveals that he does not, indeed could not, completely escape the grand narrative and the individualism that, for so long, have characterized Western thought.