Cyber Experience as a Resource for Making Alternative Worlds in the Georgian Postmodernist Novel Chewing Dawns: Sugar-Free
The paper analyses a contemporary Georgian novel – Zura Jishkariani’s Chewing Dawns: Sugar-free. The novel belongs to the sub-genre of bio-punk. The aim of the paper is to identify the defamiliarized and ironized socio-cultural processes taking place in the contemporary Georgian society, consider...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Casa Cărții de Știință
2020-10-01
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| Series: | Cultural Intertexts |
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| Online Access: | https://b00e8ea91c.clvaw-cdnwnd.com/4fb470e8cbb34a32a0dc1701f8d7322d/200000395-c1612c1615/148-163.%20Khevelidze.%20Cyber%20experience%20as%20a%20resource%20for%20making%20alternative%20worlds.pdf |
| Summary: | The paper analyses a contemporary Georgian novel – Zura Jishkariani’s Chewing Dawns:
Sugar-free. The novel belongs to the sub-genre of bio-punk. The aim of the paper is to
identify the defamiliarized and ironized socio-cultural processes taking place in the
contemporary Georgian society, considering the narratological concept of alternative
worlds and the theoretical framework of conceptual metaphor. The outcomes of the research
draw the cultural-intellectual orientations of contemporary Georgian society. Based on
these two conclusions, the paper aims to find an age-long similarity between the socialpolitical challenges of the 1920s and the contemporary problems of the Georgian society.
Research has proved that numerous systems of values have been deconstructed and
carnivalized by means of a play with alternative worlds. The development of the world
depends on the activation of the human brain capacity, which ensures the cognition of the
“higher reality“. The literary text under analysis reflects current achievements in cognitive
sciences. The mental trips reflect the capacity of the human brain. The text describes the
protagonist’s aspiration towards manipulating and stimulating the human brain. This is
the only way to overcome the banality of life. The manner of narration and the idealization
of the aim serve the purpose of describing the revolutionary spirit |
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| ISSN: | 2393-0624 2393-1078 |