چکیده

This article focuses on the validity of the historical facts in The Mirage (2012), a novel written by Matt Ruff, in an attempt to answer whether historical records and facts are reliable or not. To this end, two major themes of “simulacra and simulation” are examined through the perspective of Baudrillard and his models of “real.” It is argued since media play an important role in attracting people’s trust in current era, the consciousness is a false one, and the reality is but a “hyper-real.” To foreground such false consciousness, Ruff finds no better way but to show the world upside down; in fact, in his narrative the reader comes across a carnival, in its Bakhtinian sense, in which the Saudi Arabia is the super power of the world, and America proves a terrorist country; the September eleventh (9/11), in this novel, is turned into November ninth (11/9). By mixing up the dates and the countries and by forming a total mirage (as the title signifies) in front of the reader’s eyes, Ruff tries to re-write history (an alternate one, of course) as media do in everyday life and to foreground the notion of hyperreality to challenge the range of media’s believability and their history making.

کليدواژه ها

simulation, ‘real,’ hyperreal, history, The Mirage

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