Post Modernism and Beyond, Tape I
Magani explains the post-modern critique of the moralizing effect of narrative and the post-modern techniques of pastiche and parody. He describes a “post-modernism of resistance, “ a form of discourse that adopts the narrative strategies of the oral tradition. Temesi also argues that post-modern technique can articulate and evoke provincial and marginal cultures. He posits that modernism doesn’t represent the beginning of an aesthetic era, but rather the completion of an era. Both authors field questions from the audience.
In: International Writing Program Archive | Fiction
Authors: Mohamed Magani , Ferenc Temesi
Date Recorded: October 14, 1998
Works Read: Magani reads from A Crack in the Sky. Temesi reads from Dust.
Program: --
Format: discussion
Contributors: Peter Nazareth
Topics: Post-modernism and narrative; meta-narrative; oral tradition; modernism; pastiche; parody; Gabriel García Márquez
Note: The panel takes questions after 48 minutes- the questions are difficult to understand.