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  • Beyond Modernity: Irony, Fantasy and the Challenge to Grand Narratives in Subcomandante Marcos's Tales

    Author(s)
    Di Piramo, Daniela
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    Di Piramo, Daniela
    Year published
    2011
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    Abstract
    Modernity has long been under attack: eminent scholars, including Heidegger, Derrida, Lyotard and Foucault have engaged in intense critiques that involve the dominance of ideology in modernity, the use of language and the role of reason. Heavily critical of vanguards and "armchair revolutionaries", Subcomandante Marcos challenges the necessity for a grand narrative and a mighty narrator. But while he is relatively successful in challenging the conventional approach to politics, this paper contends that his discourse reveals that he does not, indeed could not, completely escape the grand narrative and the individualism that, ...
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    Modernity has long been under attack: eminent scholars, including Heidegger, Derrida, Lyotard and Foucault have engaged in intense critiques that involve the dominance of ideology in modernity, the use of language and the role of reason. Heavily critical of vanguards and "armchair revolutionaries", Subcomandante Marcos challenges the necessity for a grand narrative and a mighty narrator. But while he is relatively successful in challenging the conventional approach to politics, this paper contends that his discourse reveals that he does not, indeed could not, completely escape the grand narrative and the individualism that, for a long time, have characterised Western thought.*
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    Journal Title
    Mexican Studies / Estudios Mexicanos
    Volume
    27
    Issue
    1
    Publisher URI
    http://www.jstor.org/pss/10.1525/msem.2011.27.1.177
    Subject
    Political Theory and Political Philosophy
    Historical Studies
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/39282
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