Radio serials merging in La Tia Julia exemplify postmodern totalizing

Evidence

The literary representation of this new reality would thus seem to be Vargas Llosa’s remarkable “memoir” of the old days of the radio serials in Latin America, La Tia Juliay el Scribidor, where the separate daytime programs slowly begin to infect each other and colonize their neighbors, amalgamating in the most alarming — but as we have just seen, the most archetypically postmodern — of ways: such interfection is then the very prototype of what we may call the postmodern mode of totalizing. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 796

Categorization

• SEED: Serves as a concrete literary example of channel-switching totalization — usable in an explanatory essay on postmodern aesthetics.
• QUESTION: Worth chasing the actual Vargas Llosa novel to see whether Jameson’s reading of the genre-blending holds up.