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Postmodernism is a broad movement that developed in the mid- to late 20th century.
Comes after Modernism,World War Second.
Reaction against modernism
Rejection of all metanarratives
What is true today can be false tomorrow
Best Generation (Movement)
Angry Young Men (Movement)
Absurdism (Movement)

Postmodernism is linked with Poststructuralism, Deconstruction, Postcolonialism, Commonwealth Literature, Absurdism, Existentialism, Nihilism.

Major techniques and themes


Pastche | Intertextuality | Hyperreality | Irony, Black humour, playfulness |Metafiction | Poioumena | Temporal Distortion | Magic Realism |Paranoia | Maximalism | Minimalism

Important Postmodern Theorists:

Some famous thinkers associated with postmodernism are Jean Baudrillard, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Pierre-Félix Guattari, Fredric Jameson, Emmanuel Lévinas, Jean-François Lyotard, Richard Rorty, and Slavoj Žižek.


Some Important Postmodern Writers are:
Jorge Luis Borges, Samuel Beckett, Dylan Thomas W.H Auden, Viladimir Nabolov