Title: The Killing Cure: Popular Culture and Postmodern Madness in<i>Onde andará Dulce Veiga?</i>and<i>American Psycho</i>
Abstract:Through a comparison of Caio Fernando Abreu’s Onde andará Dulce Veiga? and Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho, this article argues that a reconsideration of popular culture and its relationship with ...Through a comparison of Caio Fernando Abreu’s Onde andará Dulce Veiga? and Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho, this article argues that a reconsideration of popular culture and its relationship with postmodernism needs to be addressed. By using Baudrillard’s concept of simulation to undermine commonly held views about postmodern madness, one encounters a more complex understanding of how, and why, characters are constantly searching for a cure.Read More
Publication Year: 2016
Publication Date: 2016-02-16
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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