The postmodern promises to transcend all conventional or traditional ways of knowing and understanding both the self's experience and the world that the self inhabits. Postmodern existence is characterized by a desire to reformulate how, as persons, individuals have come to know themselves and to relate to those who are in their lives and to the 'knowledges' that used to define their being prior to psychological sojourns into the postmodern world. This essay seeks to interrogate the ways in which the character(s) in Chinodya's Chairman of Fools (2005), particularly the main character, desire and drift towards an epistemic knowing and naming of a postmodern self in an environment that tends to insist on traditional ways of social behaviour and family relations. The essay argues that characters in this novel are caught up in the conflict between a postmodern desire to know and name personal experience differently and the maintenance of relationship structures as defined in a set-up of African traditions. The act of writing, which is what Farai, the main character, is engaged in, is expressive of that desire to explore new modes of knowing and naming both self experience and relations that govern both personal and communal relations in Zimbabwe's Shona culture.
مجموعه
تاريخ نشر
2016
توصيف ظاهري
180-191
عنوان
Matatu
شماره جلد
48/1
شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها
1875-7421
اصطلاحهای موضوعی کنترل نشده
اصطلاح موضوعی
cultural nihilism
اصطلاح موضوعی
epistemophilia
اصطلاح موضوعی
postmodern identity
اصطلاح موضوعی
psychic alienation
اصطلاح موضوعی
resurgence of folk tradition
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