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The Hybrids of Postmodernism

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  • Dana BĂDULESCU

    (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi,)

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Hybridization is a fundamental characteristic of postmodernism, included by Ihab Hassan in his “catena” of features. This paper looks into the hybrids of postmodernism, which are the result of migration, displacement and uprooting, the re-visitation of myths, folklore and legends, or projections of their author’s imagination. The hybrids used as examples here are drawn from several novels written by Salman Rushdie, especially The Satanic Verses, two short stories, one by Márquez and the other by Donald Barthelme, Borges’s Book of Imaginary Beings, Cărtărescu’s Encyclopaedia of Dragons and Michelle Cliff’s No Telephone to Heaven. Diverse as they may be, these hybrids emphasize a defining characteristic of postmodernism, which is its pluralism. I conclude that the hybrids of postmodernism are aesthetically or politically subversive. Besides, what makes them difficult to grasp is their unfixed and protean nature. They ask for high leaps of the imagination, a total suspension of disbelief and a complete surrender to the powerful seduction of imagination on the reader’s part.

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  • Dana BĂDULESCU, 2014. "The Hybrids of Postmodernism," Postmodern Openings, Editura Lumen, Department of Economics, vol. 5(3), pages 9-20, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:lum:rev3rl:v:5:y:2014:i:3:p:9-20
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    Keywords

    Hybrids; hybridization; hybridity; postmodernism; dream; imagination; suspension of disbelief.;
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    • A23 - General Economics and Teaching - - Economic Education and Teaching of Economics - - - Graduate

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