What
is postmodernism? What are the Characteristics of Postmodern Literature?
Post-modernism
Post-modernism
is the term used to suggest a reaction or response to modernism in the late
twentieth century. So postmodernism can only be understood in
relation to Modernism. At its core, Postmodernism rejects that which Modernism
champions. While postmodernism seems very much like modernism in many ways, it
differs from modernism in its attitude toward a lot of these trends. Modernism,
for example, tends to present a fragmented view of human subjectivity and
history, but presents that fragmentation as something tragic, something to be
lamented and mourned as a loss. Postmodernism, in contrast, doesn't lament the
idea of fragmentation, provisionality, or incoherence, but rather celebrates
that. In literature, it used to describe certain characteristics of post–World
War II literature, for example, on fragmentation, paradox, questionable
narrators, etc. and a reaction against Enlightenment ideas implicit in
Modernist literature.
Characteristics of Post-modernism:
Because
of some similar characteristics of modernism and postmodernism, critics some
time become confuse to differentiate one from the other. It would be more
helpful if we discuss the characteristics of post-modernism in compare and
contrast to modernism.
Like
modernism, postmodernism also believes the view that there is no absolute truth
and truth is relative. Postmodernism asserts that truth is not mirrored in
human understanding of it, but is rather constructed as the mind tries to
understand its own personal reality. So, facts and falsehood are
interchangeable. For example, in classical work such as King Oedipus there is
only one truth that is “obey your fate”. In contrast to classical work in
postmodern work such as in Waiting for Godot, there is no such thing as
absolute truth. All things are relative here..........................................
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