Pre/Post-Brexit Narratives: Reflections of the Use of Mass Media and Social Networks to Spread Political Discourses and Manipulate Public Opinion

Abstract

This paper focuses on analysing the narratological mechanisms and tools used to express criticism of political discourses and the manipulation of public opinion latent in today’s society. In the works studied here, we will see how the sociological and cultural consequences of political actions in contemporary English fiction are exhibited through the use of various narrative strategies, such as satire, irony, the grotesque, and elements of science fiction. These narratives, in their severe criticism of the current socio-political context, do not have a moralizing purpose nor do they propose ways of improvement and progress, they simply manifest and criticize a culture that is already consumed and manipulated by social networks, the media and consumer society.