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- a method of critical analysis of philosophical and literary language which emphasizes the internal workings of language and conceptual systems, the relational quality of meaning, and the assumptions implicit in forms of expression.
"Deconstruction" literally means "to take something apart". When applied to tropes or other aspects of fiction, deconstruction means to take apart a trope in a way that exposes its inherent contradictions, often by exploring the difference …
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What really is genre deconstruction and how to do it right?
There's no real 'right'. You just take a trope and apply some critical thinking. You edited it out, but another quote mentions deconstructing Isekai, so I'll use that as my example.
For starters, how is it that everyone speaks the same language? To deconstruct that, just don't make them speak the same language, and the arduous process of learning one or more local languages just to
begin the story.
Why are all the kingdoms racially segregated? Why do they
hate eachother? Instead of writing 'humans summon heroes to defeat demons, you can write 'demons+ summon heroes to save them from humans' or 'racially mixed kingdoms with political motives instead of racial ones'.
Why did they summon heroes in the first place? Can't they solve their own problems? Instead of writing a hero summoning, maybe the 'hero' arrives and finds out he's completely unneeded- summoned by accident, as a prank, or by a malicious entity who can't fight its own battles.
Why is everyone always fighting? Why do things always go wrong when the protagonist is around to fix it? Instead, you could write a normal daily life, where things only go wrong once in a blue moon. Or, you could write the protagonist literally being cursed to cause trouble(ill news is an ill guest, after all).
As you can see, a lot of Isekai's deconstructions have already been explored. It's a popular genre after all.
Generally speaking, if you want to deconstruct something, there's just a few things to keep in mind:
This doesn't mean making it less fantastic; no reason to remove the magic or anything.
This doesn't mean making it darker and edgier; that is a perspective that comes from the writer, not from 'the nature of reality'.
This doesn't mean personally attacking the original tropes, the writers, or the people who like those tropes; that reflects more on you than them.
Oh there's this as well.
The loose usage of the term "deconstruction". This usage typically because of fans plastering it on to their favourite work to make it seem deeper than it actually is. Darker and Edgier vs. Deconstruction Deconstructions are often Darker and …
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