Review article
https://doi.org/10.47960/2303-7431.18.29.2023.73
THE TRUTH ABOUT THE CULTURE OF LIES – DUBRAVKA UGREŠIĆ’S CRITICAL METHOD
Jelena Sabljić Vujica
; University of Mostar, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Abstract
The Culture of lies by Dubravka Ugrešić surpasses the conventional scope of cultural criticism. It wants to question the very essence of culture, it wants to tell the truth about the culture of lies. Such a purpose requires a language conceived in a way that culture understands it, but is independent from it. That is the only way that two mutually opposite
standpoints can be linked. A question arises how is it possible to make a categorical incision between two experiences and two worlds, especially in the context of postmodern deletion of fixated views. Is critique the other or is it different from culture, and hence, is truth the other or is it different from lies? Previous pieces of research do not go beyond referring to a difference between the outcast and the normative perspective. Therefore, this paper will problematize: a) the basis of a critique that intends to be different and comprehensive, and b) basis of a culture whose comprehensiveness at the same time intends to exclude what differs from it. In so doing, the paper will utilize the outlooks of feminist epistemology, on one side, and the outlook of semiotics and semiology, on the other, because they efficiently refract the contradictory temperament of the author’s culture critique. Such an approach will, respectively, offer insights into Dubravka Ugrešić’s critical method.
Keywords
Dubravka Ugrešić; truth; critique; culture; lie
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Publication date:
17.1.2024.
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