Subjective narrative in J. Franzen’s novel “Freedom” (2010) in the light of the paradigm of post-postmodernism
Kim Yulia Vitalievna
Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation
Submitted: 16.04.2023
Abstract. The aim of the research is to find an answer to the following question: how the narrative-artistic structure of J. Franzen’s novel “Freedom” (2010) reflects the problematisation of the concept of freedom in US post-postmodern literature. The paper analyses the changes in the life of American society after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 in the light of the reduction of civil liberties and the strengthening of the role of state control in various spheres; determines the influence of sociopolitical and economic changes on the formation of the paradigm of post-postmodernism and identifies the mechanisms and motives for constructing the characters’ subjectivity in the post-postmodern novel “Freedom” (2010) by J. Franzen. The research is original in that it is the first to analyse the narrative-artistic structure of the novel “Freedom” as a work of US post-postmodern literature through the lens of problematisation of the concept of freedom after the 2001 terrorist attacks. As a result, it has been proved that the narrative-artistic structure of the novel, in which the explicit narrator takes into account the explicit reader, restores the characters’ subjectivity and gives them post-postmodern freedom, allowing the characters to find their place in modern realities on their own.
Key words and phrases: постпостмодернизм, американский роман, свобода, субъектный нарратив, 9/11, post-postmodernism, American novel, freedom, subjective narrative
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