Literature and Writing: Displacement and Substitution, authored by: Abbas Abdul Jassim

The introduction of the book states: "We can consider the twenty-first century as the age of transforming cognitive structures, including: transformations of new writing, especially after the collapse of totalitarian narratives, the disruption of value systems, the centralization of Logos and the metaphysics of absolute utopias in the face of advancing notions of uncertainty, relativity, indeterminacy, quantum mechanics, and multiplicity of meaning." From this perspective, the critic draws the reader's attention to "that literature is heading towards extinction," especially after literature disintegrated with the emergence of writing — as a concept parallel to it in the form of displacement and substitution — to become oriented towards the non-genre or the non-label." The book concludes that writing appeared in a stage of breaking molds and models with the propositions of postmodernity, according to new visions of text, self, and world, and thus writing was based on violating and overthrowing the laws of literature. Number of pages: 320