Document Type : Original Article
Authors
1 Assistant Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran
2 Assistant Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, East Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
Advances in new technologies in communication and media have created a new phase in that called postmodernism. Baudrillard is the postmodern thinkers who takes a critical look at this situation. He describes the postmodern situation in American society by proposing concepts of pretense and hyper reality, The novel "Suspended Darkness of the Day" has the story of some young people active in the field of media and cyberspace. In this narrative she takes a critical look at the issue of media performance in the production and distribution of news content and how to shape the world of audiences through this content In a descriptive-analytical way. this research seeks to examine the attitude of the "novel of the suspended darkness of the day" to the issues of media and cyberspace with a critical view. To do this Baudrillard's model of media functionality and the concepts of pretense and surrealism will be used. The result of reading the novel also shows that the media in today's world, by using the concept of hyper reality and by presenting numerous meaningless signs, have an irreplaceable role in constructing the bio-world of the audience. The most important aspects of this in the novel are manifested in the forms of "distortion of reality", "secrecy" and "hyper-reality" and one of the examples of that character is "Rahana", a Kurdish girl whose image has no relation with her reality in the world. Only in a society of meaningless signs is the unreal represented in the form of reality.
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