Research Article

Postmodernism in Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the Highcastle

Volume: 6 Number: 1 June 1, 2020
  • Silva Duman *
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Postmodernism in Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the Highcastle

Abstract

Philip K. Dick’s The Man In The Highcastle is a pathbreaking novel that bears the traces of postmodernity with its contadictory, historical and political plot even though it is accepted in science fiction canon. Dick creates an alternative history in which the Allied forces lost the World War II and Germans and Japanese rule the world. Dick draws portraits from America posing the question what kind of a world would generate if America lost the war, displaying the German Nazi terror of fascism and Japanese performance of capitalism. In the shade of this question, Philip K. Dick covers a number of crucial topics of the twentieth century such as fascism and holocaust, monopolist capitalism and its results on individuals, a severe criticism of Western dominant ideology of expansion and exploitation. The presence of a reshaped and reinterpruted history, the criticism of Western dominant capitalist bourgeois society, the isolated and estranged individuals in monopoly capitalist system, underlying the results of cruel expansion policies, racism and holocaust cause the reader encounter with postmodernism in The Man in the Highcastle. Thus Dick highlights the results of a disastrous war in America by posing to the reader numerous questions in a postmodern fantasy that could be accepted as a fruit of an era totally under scrutiny with all its institutions.

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References

  1. Dick, P. K . (1981). The Man in the Highcastle. New York: Berkley Freedman, C. (2000). Critical Theory and Science Fiction . Middletown: Wesleyan University Press Hutcheon, L. (1988). A Poetics of Postm0odernism History, Theory, Ficton. New York : Routledge Eagleton, T. (2003). Literary Theory. Minneapolis : The University of Minnesota Press Edward, J., & Mendlesohn, F. (2012). The Cambridge Companion To Fantasy Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

Creative Arts and Writing

Journal Section

Research Article

Authors

Silva Duman * This is me
0000-0002-2912-0124
Türkiye

Publication Date

June 1, 2020

Submission Date

March 2, 2020

Acceptance Date

May 15, 2020

Published in Issue

Year 2020 Volume: 6 Number: 1

APA
Duman, S. (2020). Postmodernism in Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the Highcastle. International Journal of Media Culture and Literature, 6(1), 73-87. https://izlik.org/JA82CC77WF
AMA
1.Duman S. Postmodernism in Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the Highcastle. IJMCL. 2020;6(1):73-87. https://izlik.org/JA82CC77WF
Chicago
Duman, Silva. 2020. “Postmodernism in Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the Highcastle”. International Journal of Media Culture and Literature 6 (1): 73-87. https://izlik.org/JA82CC77WF.
EndNote
Duman S (June 1, 2020) Postmodernism in Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the Highcastle. International Journal of Media Culture and Literature 6 1 73–87.
IEEE
[1]S. Duman, “Postmodernism in Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the Highcastle”, IJMCL, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 73–87, June 2020, [Online]. Available: https://izlik.org/JA82CC77WF
ISNAD
Duman, Silva. “Postmodernism in Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the Highcastle”. International Journal of Media Culture and Literature 6/1 (June 1, 2020): 73-87. https://izlik.org/JA82CC77WF.
JAMA
1.Duman S. Postmodernism in Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the Highcastle. IJMCL. 2020;6:73–87.
MLA
Duman, Silva. “Postmodernism in Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the Highcastle”. International Journal of Media Culture and Literature, vol. 6, no. 1, June 2020, pp. 73-87, https://izlik.org/JA82CC77WF.
Vancouver
1.Silva Duman. Postmodernism in Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the Highcastle. IJMCL [Internet]. 2020 Jun. 1;6(1):73-87. Available from: https://izlik.org/JA82CC77WF


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