Albertorio Pizarro, Heri J.

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Escape through the literary borderlands: A postmodern examination of Michael Chabon’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
(2015) Albertorio Pizarro, Heri J.; Irizarry Rodríguez, José M.; College of Arts and Sciences - Arts; Vicente, Nancy Vanessa; Flores, Leonardo; Rivera, Rosita; Department of English; Boglio, Rafael
This thesis explores how Michael Chabon’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, can be considered a postmodern trickster text that merges the literary and artistic art-forms of the high and the popular cultures. This will be done by looking at how the text embodies the aesthetics of postmodernism, particularly the elements of temporal disorder, pastiche and fragmentation. Furthermore, the thesis analyzes how the prose comic retellings of Joe Kavalier and Sammy Clay pushes the boundaries of fiction writing. Moreover, on how this text can be considered a trickster, this thesis shows how it too resembles the cultural merging characteristics of this worldly literary figure. Ultimately, this project analyzes the novel’s potential of being a transformative text that escape the margins of literary fiction.