Generalizations definitely are simplifications,
so
the following chart will serve as
Discussion Starters
Only
| Genres &
main concerns |
fragments | Reconstructions |
| Author-ity | Lost in the Funhouse
textual fragments, characters as codes |
searching/self-questioning as a mode of
human existence |
| Author-ity | Deconstructing Harry
writing as self-projections (fantasies and dealing with fear, hatred and desire) |
self-confirmation/understanding through his fiction (and fictional characters) |
| Author-ity | The Player
several authors, several scripts waiting to be turned into a film |
the reality of film industry |
| Postmodern conditions | Jean Baudrillard
implosion of information and simulacra |
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| Postmodern conditions | Lyotard
small narratives, paralogy |
free access to information and computers |
| Postmodern conditions | Fredric Jameson
overall commodification, pastiche, depthlessness |
cognitive mapping |
| War History | Slaughterhouse-V
resulted from "getting unstuck in time" and the narrator's inability to make sense of the war. -- fragments of history; his-story and the other authors' stories. |
broader perspectives, which affirms the non-human sense of existence (of the birds, horses and extra-terretials)? |
| War History | The Stunt Man
the film within the film; the stunt man's past, and their merging and intersection with the "reality" in the film. |
survival |
| Ethnic Family History | Disappearing Moon Cafe
fragments of public and family history, identity and bodies (bones) |
re-vision of the history of Chinese-Canadian;
walking out of the family remance |
| Ethnic Family History | Calendar
fragments of memories (shown from the calendar and the video), fragments of speech in foreign languages, role-playing |
stopping the ritual of role-playing |
| Ethnic/Lesbian Identity | When Fox is a Thousand
of bodies, roots, dresses, identities |