POSTMODERN SKEPTICISM TOWARDS METANARRATIVE OF SALVATION: DE-CENTERING MARXIST COMMUNISM AS A MESSIANIC DISCOURSE IN LESSING’S THE GOLDEN NOTEBOOK
Journal Title: Asian Journal Social Sciences & Humanities - Year 2013, Vol 2, Issue 1
Abstract
Metanarratives refer to the ideological constructs of history which tend to universalize human knowledge and experience on the basis of unified epistemological grounds. Postmodernism, in recent years, has de-centered the unification of Salvationist discourses of history in order to bring out their implicit totalizing hegemonies. The present study deals with dismantling Marxist Communism as a Salvationist discourse through pointing out the patterns of its fascist anarchy worldwide. Lessing explicates the study of Marxist Communism as hegemonic ideological construct which tends to oppress the voices from intelligentsia through its anarchical discursive strategies and hence problematizes the issue of regarding Marxist Communism as a messianic discourse. Moreover, the study engages itself with the representation of identity crisis in the postmodern era as a result of disillusionment with Marxist Communism as a redemptive discourse. Also, the study hinges on the idea of postmodern skepticism towards language as a unified idiom to define Marxist Communism as a liberatory discourse and thus, contesting the idea of unified reality through its emphasis on the metonymic representation(s) of Marxist Communism.
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Sundus Javaid
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