The Politics of the Possible
1987; University of Minnesota Press; Issue: 7 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/1354154
ISSN1460-2458
Autores Tópico(s)Literature, Magical Realism, García Márquez
Resumohe nonmimetic narrative modes of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Salman Rushdie inhabit a social and conceptual space in which the problems of ascertaining meaning assume a political dimension qualitatively different from the current postmodern skepticism about meaning in Europe and America. Yet such nonmimetic, non-western modes also seem to lay themselves open to the academized procedures of a peculiarly western, historically singular, postmodern epistemology that universalizes the self-conscious dissolution of the bourgeois subject, with its now characteristic stance of self-irony, across both space and time. The expansive forms of the moder and the postmodern novel appear to stand in ever-polite readiness to recycle and accommodate other cultural content, whether Latin American or Indian. The ease with which a reader may be persuaded to traverse the path between such non-western modes and western postmodernism-broadly defined here as the specific preoccupations and sensibility of both contemporary fiction and of poststructuralist critical discourse may
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