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2. What distinctions are there between alternate history, postmodern alternate history and uchronie genres?

Paul K.Alkon defines “essay or narratives exploring the consequences of an imagined divergence from specific historical events”(Alternate” 68). Mountford (2016) grieves “postmodern form of alternative history”. 

High Castle’s setting up a kind of play between the author and his protagonist. Although the acknowledgement of this different part of technique and patterning device in the novel. “Critics have praised High Castel as a landmark example of the uchronie or alternative history genre” (Mountford, 2016). Uchronie is the French term for alternative histories genre. It is “emphasizes less a causal or diachronic notion of history and more a synchronic or polyphonous one” (Mountford, 2016). “the postmodern alternate history tends to foreground historical chaos” Ramson (2010. Alternative history, postmodern alternative and uchronie are all the same under the specific literature. The genre alternative is seen over different of time through history. “all historical” is focused as an analysis of many scholarly or as a formative example of alternative history, in France it is called as uchronie. Uchronie is “less a casual of diachronic notion of history and more a synchronic or polyphnous one” (Mountfort, 2016). “Amy Ransom argues that critics discussing alternate history (AH) have often neglected to distinguish among the more conventional forms, which are underpinned by a linear, causal, or diachronic view of time, and the more synchronic view implicit in the French term for the genre, uchronie”(Mountfort,2016). Amy Ransom believed that alternative history (AH) have often forgotten to recognise among the form of conversation, which is underpinned casual, view of time “diachronic”, “synchronic” perspective implicit in the French term for the genre, uchronie (Mountfort, 2016). 

I Ching provide the different between the synchronic and diachronic notion of simultaneity or “meaning coincidence” is contrary to the western views of causality. Uchrnie emphasizes the diachronic idea of history and a synchronic or polyphonously one. 

I Ching is an element of chance and is existed in different realities (Mountford. 2016). There is a hypothesis that other universities exist. Therefore, “The Man in the High Castle” I Ching device literally figure the stylistic and philosophical dimension of it. Oracle discuss a core around which novel is real or fake world binary. “This scenario represents an identified subgenre within the uchronie genre” (Mountfort, 2016). I Ching inspired and write The Man in the High Castle was in ancient time. Dick’s novel wrote it from the main plot and explored more to the readers a postmodern fiction of the texts. 

Alternative history, postmodern alternative history and uchronie genre are in a different alternative world where the fate of characters in the text are possible in multiple scenarios. I Ching based on the belief that other possibilities can happen in an alternative existence world, and characters can be different in the different text depending on the world of novel scenarios, and it can change overtimes. The many share some the same definition or meaning, but they can be different through time and in alternative world theory. 

References:

Ransom, A. J. (2010). Warping time: alternate history, historical fantasy, and the postmodern uchronie quebecoise. Extrapolation, 51(2), 258+

Mountfort , P. (2016) The I Ching and Philip K Dick’s The Man in the High Castle SF-TH Inc