Publikace na Pedagogická fakulta, Filozofická fakulta |
2011
Abstrakt
Nicola Barker''s Clear (2004) was inspired by David Blaine''s endurance stunt "Above the Below", during which the illusionist fasted for forty-four days confined in a transparent box suspended above the Thames, starting on September 5, 2003. This article focuses on how the theme of self-fashioning through the texts of popular visual culture is explored in the novel and how Barker renders some of the central paradoxical principles that generate these texts'' meanings.
It also argues that rather than a documentary fiction Clear represents a novel of ideas because it dramatises some of the recent theories of postmodern popular culture and identity formation.