Andy Smith | Malazan: A Postmodern Critique of the Fantasy Genre @AndySmithMN | Uploaded October 2020 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
I've wanted to do this video for a long time. I often talk about Malazan being a postmodern, poststructuralist critique of the fantasy genre, but don't often get to dive too deep into that discussion. In this video, I let loose and talk about why I love the postmodern elements in the Malazan Book of the Fallen, by Steven Erikson.

This video is SPOILER FREE!

This video is divided into four parts:

00:04 - Part I: Introduction
03:00 - Part II: Defining Postmodernism & Poststructuralism
20:01 - Part III: Modernism & Fantasy
24:54 - Part IV: Malazan: A Postmodern, Poststructuralist Critique

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Author's Note: I know there will be a lot of Philosophy junkies out there who will point out I've simplified many points and left out valuable philosophers and linguists (like Gadamer and Heidegger) in this video. I've tried to be as basic level as possible; just know I'm aware that this is not a complete description of all possible topics for discussion in this rich conversation.

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