ELEMENTS OF POSTMODERNISM by Ajayll Aldaya

IRONY, ABSURDITY, PLAYFULNESS & BLACK HUMOR

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POSTMODERNISM

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Treating serious subjects as a joke, sometimes with emotionally distant authors. Playfulness is central to postmodernism; it reinforces the idea that there is no organizing principle in a chaotic

DISTRUST

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Distrust of theories and ideologies, of the author/narrator, undermining his control of one voice, of modern assumptions about culture, identity, & history,

PASTICHE

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(Mixing genres) as an homage to or a parody of past literary styles.

METAFICTION

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Making the artificiality of writing apparent to the reader, i.e. deliberate strategies to prevent the usual suspension of disbelief, drawing attention to the conventions of literature.

TECHNO CULTURE and HYPER-REALITY

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Worlds and characters inundated with information, focused on technology in everyday life, swamped by products and bombarded by advertising, ambiguity about what’s real and what’s simulated.

MAXIMALISM

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Sprawling canvas and fragmented narrative and looking disorganized and filled with playful language for its own sake.

MINIMALISM

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Short, ‘slice-of-life’ stories where readers must use their own imaginations to create the story. Unexceptional characters, economy with words. Spare style, lacking adjectives, adverbs and meaningless.

HISTORIOGRAPHIC METAFICTION

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Fictionalizing actual events and figures from history.

FACTION

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Blending fact and fiction, especially historical novels or those using real living personalities e.g. world politicians.

TEMPORAL DISTORTION

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Events can overlap, repeat, or multiple events can occur simultaneously, often to achieve.

MAGIC REALISM

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Imaginary themes and subjects, with a dream-like quality, mixing the real with the fantastic, surreal and Time shifts, dreams, myths and fairy stories as part of the narrative, arcane erudition, inexplicable events, elements of surprise or abrupt shock.

INTERTEXTUALITY

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Quotations, references and allusions, designed to make apparent that every text absorbs and transforms some other text.