Postmodern metadrama in Martin McDonagh's A Very Very Very Dark Matter

This paper explores Martin McDonagh's A Very Very Very Dark Matter as a postmodern metadrama. I will take parody as an umbrella term under which various other concepts, including intertextuality, discontinuity, and irony, create a self‐reflexive network to reconsider some of the grand narrative...

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Published in:Orbis litterarum Vol. 80; no. 5; pp. 531 - 540
Main Author: Kolahjooei, Farzad
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Malden Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.10.2025
Subjects:
discontinuity
intertextuality
Martin McDonagh
parody
postmodern metadrama
self‐reflexivity
ISSN:0105-7510, 1600-0730
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Summary:This paper explores Martin McDonagh's A Very Very Very Dark Matter as a postmodern metadrama. I will take parody as an umbrella term under which various other concepts, including intertextuality, discontinuity, and irony, create a self‐reflexive network to reconsider some of the grand narratives in the West, patricularly the discourses of writing and history. The alternative world that McDonagh imagines in his play through combining fact and fiction, I will argue, fits well in such a networked consideration of metadrama as it displays a radical perspective that asks essential questions about originality, the Western literary canon, and political history.
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ISSN:0105-7510
1600-0730
DOI:10.1111/oli.12495