AS AM 5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: David Henry Hwang, The Postmodern Condition, High Modernism

• School: UCSB
• Department: Asian American Studies
• Course: AS AM 5
• Professor: Sameer Pandya

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Postmodernism: there is nothing new left to formulate. Greek drama takes good and evil and have it go against one another. The fictionality of fiction, yet tries to produce work recognizing this. Pastiche: particular descriptor of this condition, imitate dead styles. Parody: (cid:396)where in sympathy or with malice to cast ridicule on the private nature of these stylistic mannerisms and excessiveness(cid:397) Pastiche: (cid:396)in a world in which stylistic innovation is no longer possible, all that is left is to imitate dead style, to speak through masks and the voices of the styles in the imaginary museum(cid:397) Djs mix together and overlay different styles of music. We can no longer (cid:396)make it new(cid:397) Self is constructed through stories, through the act of writing. Comes from all different thoughts, the making up and telling of stories from her mother and from herself. A text is a (cid:396)multidimensional space in which a variety of writings, none of them original,