Critiquing American Grand Narrative of Democracy in Megan K. Stack's Every Man in This Village is a Liar

Abstract

This research aims to trace the critique of American grand narrative of democracy in Megan K. Stack's Every Man in This Village Is a Liar. Its structural modality shows the effect of ongoing war in the Middle East at first. After this, it analyses the reason of war, involvement of great democratic superpower, America in this war on the name of 'war on terror', consequences of war, human and material destruction, painful life style of civilians in the insurgent, American advocacy of democracy as one and only political system. Through the analysis of author's description of events and real word picture which are created by war, this thesis tries to justify Stack's position to criticize American grand narrative of democracy by presenting heart-rendering situation of the Middle East.