postdictatorship

— If the function of the dictatorships was the epochal ushering of the postmodern stage of capital, the task facing literary writing in postmodern postdictatorships will necessarily differ from previous postdictatorships, in that now the imperative of mourning imposes itself in a context in which literature has been forced to abandon its privileged role in modernity—the imagination of an otherwise, the redemption of the poetic within the prosaism of daily alienated life, and the envisioning of a redemptive epiphany.