"Lose Yourself": Narrative Instability and Unstable Identities in Black Swan

Authors

  • Stefan Schubert Institute for American Studies, University of Leipzig

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5283/copas.164

Keywords:

Narrative Instability, Narrativity, Post-Postmodernism, Identity, Black Swan

Abstract

This article discusses narrative instability as a significant dynamic in recent American cinema and focuses on an investigation of the film Black Swan“ as such a narratively unstable text. After an introduction to narrative instability and its connection to a (post-)postmodern cultural instability in general, I analyze Black Swan“ as a narratively unstable text that dramatizes previous unstable films’ concerns about identity and reality.

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Published

2013-05-22

How to Cite

Schubert, Stefan. “‘Lose Yourself’: Narrative Instability and Unstable Identities in Black Swan”. Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies, vol. 14, no. 1, May 2013, doi:10.5283/copas.164.

Issue

Vol. 14 No. 1 (2013)

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