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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Main Author: Seyed Javad Habibi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM 2013
Online Access:http://journalarticle.ukm.my/6589/
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http://journalarticle.ukm.my/6589/1/2715-9494-1-PB.pdf