Fiction fixated on past corruption renews in prophetic power later
Evidence
By the end of 2012, the 70s was returning, no longer as some bittersweet nostalgia trip, but as a trauma. The phrase it’s like something out of David Peace has become something of a commonplace in the past few years. Strangely for fiction that is about the past, Peace’s work has actually gained in prophetic power since its publication. Peace wasn’t predicting the future – how could he be, when he was writing about the 70s and the 80s? – so much as he had fixated on those parts of the past which were about to resurface. — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life, 196
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Melodramatic excess in fiction can presage real corruption scandals — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 197; Apocalyptic prophecy was repurposed by substituting fresh enemies into old texts; A profitable genre of apocalyptic fiction fused end-times prophecy with anti-Muslim racism — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes…, 746 (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- A profitable genre of apocalyptic fiction fused end-times prophecy with anti-Muslim racism
#exemplifies(0.85) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 746 - Fiction can dramatize an Islamophobic controversy before it erupts in public life
#exemplifies(0.80) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 275 - Apocalyptic prophecy was repurposed by substituting fresh enemies into old texts
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