American and Chinese Literature. Behind the Mask of Postmodernism: a National Failure
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Castelli, Alberto
Кастелли, А.
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2018-06Journal Name:
Журнал Сибирского федерального университета. Гуманитарные науки. Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences;2018 11 (6)Abstract:
The article is less an investigation of American, and Chinese postmodern fiction from a comparative perspective, than it is an acknowledgement of postmodern fiction as a representation of national failure. Besides the well-known attributes of black humour, fantasy and dreams, fragmentation, meta-fictional elements, intertextuality, parody, radical irony, literature lavishes a violent attack on what, at different degrees, could be understood as a postmodern society. The aesthetic of social protest such as deviant sexuality, drug and alcohol addiction (America), and expressions of insanity, historical decadence (China) are to be read as the sense of tragedy binding tightly two civilisations never so similar at any stage in history Статья в большей степени представляет собой признание того, что постмодернистская художественная литература являет собой национальную неудачу, и в меньшей степени – сравнительное исследование американской и китайской постмодернистской литературы. Наряду
с такими хорошо известными атрибутами, как черный юмор, фантазии и мечты, фрагментация, элементы метапрозы, интертекстуальность, пародия, радикальная ирония, литература изобилует агрессивными нападками на то, что в разной степени может пониматься как
постмодернистское общество. Эстетику социального протеста, выражаемого в отклонениях сексуального поведения, наркотической и алкогольной зависимости (Америка), проявлениях
безумия и историческом упадке (Китай), следует понимать как чувство трагедии, тесно связывающее две цивилизации, которые ни на одном историческом этапе не были так похожи
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