Publication Date: 2024/02/06
Abstract: Does parody merely twist the high accounts into a commonplace? In this paper, the label of parody is equally set to give thought to the curvature of time plane in Doctorow's Ragtime and to question the presentation of realities in the archival records, with the signification of rethinking the augmented facts in history. This study examines the aperiodic and intertextual consciousness of the novel through parodic vision of history to show how the slanted readings of facts reinforce temporality of glorified acts and tarnish the roles of its celebrated actors, tuned in the notes of popular culture in Doctorow’s fiction. In our relational analysis, it is discussed that the resonance of history through the pitches of literature is a re-filing of gaps with the shades of cultural concepts, in a means, to dampen the high frequency of language in mega-narratives. In fine, it is stated that fiction could serve as a medium for deterritorialization of ‘truth’, both glossing the historical arguments and debilitating their communicative force.
Keywords: Doctorow, Ragtime, Parody, Reiteration, Hyperbole, Carnivalesque, Bricolage.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10623017
PDF: https://ijirst.demo4.arinfotech.co/assets/upload/files/IJISRT24JAN1752.pdf
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