Daughter of Time: Postmodernist critique as an antidote to post-truth politics

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Media Studies (MA)

Doorn, Robin van (2021)

Daughter of Time: Postmodernist critique as an antidote to post-truth politics

Master thesis | Media Studies (MA)

It is often assumed that all manipulation of truth follows a similar format. However, an examination of the way that ‘post-truth politics,’ the strategies, politicians and communities that consciously manipulate facts to alter the ‘truth’ of their audience for political gains, and historiographic metafiction, a genre of postmodern literary texts that interpret history while simultaneously critically assessing and questioning the ‘truth’ they construct in their interpretation, shows that both post-truth politics and historiographic metafiction manipulate truth for completely different purposes. Yet, little research has been done on how these manipulations of truth work and how they differ. This thesis studies how truth is manipulated in post-truth politics and historiographic metafiction respectively, how these manipulations differ and overlap and what this means for future research on neutralizing or repurposing the manipulation of truth by post-truth politics.

post-truth

post-truth politics

postmodernism

historiographic metafiction