Postmodernism (The Help/ Feminine Gospels/ COAHTR)
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- postmodernist literature
- CONTEXT
- Post WW2 so 1940/50s to present time.
- Arose in a time of consumerism/ changing attitudes towards women and society.
- Backdrop of Cold War, including the Berlin Wall
- Post WW2 so 1940/50s to present time.
- THEMES
- Intertextuality
- Pastiche
- Parody
- Metafiction
- Maximalism
- Paranoia
- Fragmentation
- Temporal distortion
- Hyperreaity
- Intertextuality
- Feminine Gospels
- Comments on consumerism represent ideas of paranoia which is typical
- Fragmentation used to reflect female alienation
- Temporal Distortion in Map Woman
- The Help
- Unreliable narrator? perhaps reflective of post-modernist narratives
- temporal distortion as a product?
- Unreliable narrator? perhaps reflective of post-modernist narratives
- COAHTR
- Sub Plots encompass ideas of maximalism because it doesn't stick to a particular structure.
- Idea of mendacity and impossibility of truth
- Sub Plots encompass ideas of maximalism because it doesn't stick to a particular structure.
- CONTEXT
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