Postmodernist deconstruction of the provincial-imperial coordinates
Julia Kristeva’s Murder in Byzantium
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https://doi.org/10.60056/CCL.2023..101-115Keywords:
province, empire, post-structuralism, deconstruction, Julia Kristeva, Murder in Byzantium.Abstract
The article examines Julia Kristeva’s novel Murder in Byzantium, in which a typical structuralist provincial-imperial model of the world order is deconstructed from the standpoint of post-structuralism. It is assumed that the appeal to the history of Byzantium has certain autobiographical grounds. In this way, Kristeva demonstrates the relativity of the concepts of ‘centre’ and ‘periphery’ from a historical perspective: Byzantium, Bulgaria, France, the United States eventually dissolve into the “global village”, which is embodied in the novel in the image of Santa Barbara.
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