POSTMODERNISM AND/ AS POSTCOLONIALISM: ON RE-READING MILAN KUNDERA AND BREYTEN BREYTENBACH
POSTMODERNISM AND/ AS POSTCOLONIALISM: ON RE-READING MILAN KUNDERA AND BREYTEN BREYTENBACH
Author(s): Ileana Şora DimitriuSubject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Editura Universităţii de Vest din Timişoara / Diacritic Timisoara
Keywords: Breytenbach; double vision; Kundera; postmodernism-as-postcolonialism
Summary/Abstract: This paper compares Kundera and Breytenbach, two writers who address conditions of social oppression and reveal similarities of ‘double vision’ concerning what is home, what is exile. Both have been classified as postmodern, but this analysis argues that their writing modality is an expression of ‘postmodernism-as-postcolonialism’ (Quayson 2000). The present reading resists any easy separation of the two ‘posts’ of our time, and offers a model of interpretation that, by analogy, may be applied to several writers whose postmodernist art emanates from a historical burden.
Journal: B.A.S. British and American Studies
- Issue Year: 2008
- Issue No: 14
- Page Range: 33-49
- Page Count: 17
- Language: English