Self-Reflexivity and Parodic Intertextuality in Martin Amis’s London Fields

Abstract

By depicting the modern city of London, Martin Amis in his novel London Fields critiques the notion of socio-cultural/historical aspects. With the exact equivalence of the fact or truth Amis creates the questionable representation of past, truth and cultural practices and puts forward an idea to re-integrate or re-synthesize it by presenting the lives of private and public world. Re-integration and re-synthesization as the fundamental theme, he considers the difficulties of his character like Keith, Nicola, and Guy, who are being dissatisfied towards the socio-cultural practices of the then London. The whole part of the novel is an attempt to show how and why they are dissatisfied with the socio-cultural representation and entangled in the criminal activities is the relevance of his novel. Thus, here it questions the nature of truth, fact, past into a particular condition of crisis in representation but not to show the total unaccountability of history and the grand narration. It has the key consideration of the question of representation and their attitude, ability, problem, and necessities which is set up of the condition and living on the basis to figure out the self-reflexivity and parodic intertextuality.