Democracy as simulacrum: incredulity towards the metanarrative of emancipation in Ian McEwan’s saturday
Laying bare simulacrum–oriented aspect of the western democracy in the contemporary world within almost a single day—15 September 2003—is what McEwan highlights in his novel Saturday (2005). To substantiate this hypothesis, Lyotard’s definition of postmodernism especially his notion of incredulity t...
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| description | Laying bare simulacrum–oriented aspect of the western democracy in the contemporary world within almost a single day—15 September 2003—is what McEwan highlights in his novel Saturday (2005). To substantiate this hypothesis, Lyotard’s definition of postmodernism especially his notion of incredulity towards metanarrative of emancipation is taken as the theoretical backbone to animadvert the contemporary assumption of democracy. Dramatizing the terrorized and terrorizing life of Henry Perowne, Saturday reveals the real blank face of democracy, the fact that democracy in its postmodern veil has lost its traditional essence and is shrank to hollow mask which has risen itself to be a simulacrum. The concluding section of this study discusses that the ramification of this dominating “simulative democracy” is nothing but hegemonic control, a phenomenon, which according to Baudrillard, begets terrorism. |
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| spelling | oai:generic.eprints.org:65892016-12-14T06:41:37Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/6589/ Democracy as simulacrum: incredulity towards the metanarrative of emancipation in Ian McEwan’s saturday Seyed Javad Habibi, Laying bare simulacrum–oriented aspect of the western democracy in the contemporary world within almost a single day—15 September 2003—is what McEwan highlights in his novel Saturday (2005). To substantiate this hypothesis, Lyotard’s definition of postmodernism especially his notion of incredulity towards metanarrative of emancipation is taken as the theoretical backbone to animadvert the contemporary assumption of democracy. Dramatizing the terrorized and terrorizing life of Henry Perowne, Saturday reveals the real blank face of democracy, the fact that democracy in its postmodern veil has lost its traditional essence and is shrank to hollow mask which has risen itself to be a simulacrum. The concluding section of this study discusses that the ramification of this dominating “simulative democracy” is nothing but hegemonic control, a phenomenon, which according to Baudrillard, begets terrorism. Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM 2013 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/6589/1/2715-9494-1-PB.pdf Seyed Javad Habibi, (2013) Democracy as simulacrum: incredulity towards the metanarrative of emancipation in Ian McEwan’s saturday. 3L; Language,Linguistics and Literature,The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies., 19 (3). pp. 127-140. ISSN 0128-5157 http://ejournal.ukm.my/3l/issue/archive |
| spellingShingle | Seyed Javad Habibi, Democracy as simulacrum: incredulity towards the metanarrative of emancipation in Ian McEwan’s saturday |
| title | Democracy as simulacrum: incredulity towards the metanarrative of emancipation in Ian McEwan’s saturday |
| title_full | Democracy as simulacrum: incredulity towards the metanarrative of emancipation in Ian McEwan’s saturday |
| title_fullStr | Democracy as simulacrum: incredulity towards the metanarrative of emancipation in Ian McEwan’s saturday |
| title_full_unstemmed | Democracy as simulacrum: incredulity towards the metanarrative of emancipation in Ian McEwan’s saturday |
| title_short | Democracy as simulacrum: incredulity towards the metanarrative of emancipation in Ian McEwan’s saturday |
| title_sort | democracy as simulacrum: incredulity towards the metanarrative of emancipation in ian mcewan’s saturday |
| url | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/6589/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/6589/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/6589/1/2715-9494-1-PB.pdf |