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Satire is one of the most prominent features of Canadian literature and as such has been mapped in the writing of Canadian postmodern author Robert Kroetsch in this paper. The paper will focus on Robert Kroetsch’s award winning novel The Studhorse Man (1969) and will examine the way postmodern satire shatters the dominant heroic myths placing Kroetsch closer to other novelists of the “New Western Myth” in North America as Leslie Fiedler describes in The Return of the Vanishing American. Kroetsch’s subversion of the dominant system is briefly related to Bakhtin’s carnival theory as well. The paper explores satire within the postmodern theory of writing by looking at the story of the novel as the parody of the quest myth in the West and the main hero Hazard Lepage as a comic travesty of the Western hero in quest. Kroetsch de-mythologizes the West by using satire as a powerful means to recreate old stories into new ones. In conclusion, the author of the paper proves that in this novel Kroetsch creates a new prairie reality and experience through this particular story which becomes his authentic way of relating to Canadian reality.

Postmodern satire as means of rewriting myths in The Studhorse Man