Recently added articles from CRITIQUE: Studies in Contemporary Fiction:
Gilbert Sorrentino's burial and rebirth of modernism.
Jun 22, 2009; ... ABSTRACT: This essay explores how Gilbert Sorrentino's novel Mulligan Stew declares an end to modernism and reactivates the concept of modernism through parody, which Fredric Jameson has deemed impossible in postmodern culture. This essay demonstrates that Sorrentino's negation of ...
"Torn country": Turkey and the West in Orhan Pamuk's Snow.(Critical essay)
Jun 22, 2009; ... ABSTRACT: In his controversial book The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996), Samuel P. Huntington hypothesized that Turkey (along with Mexico and Russia) was a "torn" country standing on the threshold between two civilizations (which he categorized as Western and ...
Continuity and complexity in Milan Kundera's Immortality.(Critical essay)
Jun 22, 2009; ... ABSTRACT: Labeling himself an antimodern modernist, Milan Kundera critiques what he calls "imagology." Privileging appearances over substance, "imagology" becomes hegemonic even as it opposes all forms of totalitarian truth. Meanwhile, Immortality reveals how an intricate design can emerge ...
"I revive, renew, and re-establish": mimetic catastrophe in Ben Katchor's: The Jew of New York.
Jun 22, 2009; ... ABSTRACT: For all of its narrative complexity, Ben Katchor's The Jew of New York is tightly structured around a central motif: "mimetic catastrophe" or the production of likenesses (imitations, resemblances, mimicries, and simulacra) in close and consistent association with disaster ...
Postmodern hybridity and performing identity in Gish Jen and Rebecca Walker.('Mona in the Promised Land' and 'Rebecca Walker')(Critical essay)
Jun 22, 2009; ... ABSTRACT: Using Gish Jen's Mona in the Promised Land and Rebecca Walker's Black White and Jewish, this essay explores a new mode of subjectivity in today's postmodern capitalist regime, an identity that incessantly moves among a proliferation of differences. The essay finally suggests a ...