The Postmodern Condition

we can call this work as postmodern or not. There are many sources which support these both statements. Postmodernism and The movie ‘Pulp Fiction’ Jean-Francois

A Postmodern Tendancy in Their Eyes Were Watching God        ...Zora Neale Hurston lacks [any] excuse. The sensory sweep of her novel carries no theme, no message, no thought. In the main, her novel is not addressed to the Negro, but to a white audience whose chauvinistic tastes she knows how to satisfy. She exploits the phase of Negro life which is "quaint," the phase which evokes a piteous smile on the lips of the "superior" race. -- from "Their Eyes Were Watching God

In his seminal study Gothic, Botting compares Gothic literature in the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries with respect to their different ways of addressing terror and horror. He notes that the novel of terror dominated the eighteenth-century gothic writings for its transgressive efficacies. Female Gothic writers examine the terrors of patriarchal oppression while verbalizing the heroine’s anxiety about her entrapment into the confines of domesticity. In other words, the gothic heroine

will result in demonstrating how and why postmodern text deconstructs grand narratives. In order to do this, this essay will present two postmodern texts: the film Pulp Fiction by Quentin Tarantino and the novel Sexting The Cherry by Jeanette Winterson. Thus, showing how these two texts use postmodern techniques to deconstruct grand narratives. Particularly, how they deconstruct the perception of time. Before getting into the crux of the chosen postmodern texts, the concept or grand narratives, otherwise

1. What is meant by the ‘postmodern condition’?   Postmodernism can be called “a condition of contemporary culture”, it is a modern movement which is strong, ambiguous, very popular and controversial. However, it is very difficult to explain the term because there is no full clarity what the term really means. As one can read in The Condition of Postmodernity it is “a mine-field of conflicting notions” and “a battleground of conflicting opinions and political forces”. There are so many interpretations

Twentieth century is marked with two epochs, first half is known as modernism and second half is named as postmodernism. In the latter half of twentieth century there was an overall transferal in terms of culture, economics, religion, history, linguistics, social behavior, philosophy, arts, architecture, and literature. The world has entered into a new phenomenon that is being defined with the prefix of ‘post’. For istance from structuralism to poststructuralism, colonialism to postcolonialism, positivism

introducing new theories of science and technology to explain the world, whereas postmodern theatre raises more questions than supplying the answers for the audience. Modernism created a ‘grand-narrative’ whereby there was only one meaning which would be told to the audience. Postmodernism broke down the ‘grand-narrative’ when Jean-François Lyotard wrote La Condition postmoderne: Rapport sur le savoir (The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge) (1979), he came up with

rejection or ignorance of the metanarrative and simulations in the world. Both Jean-François Lyotard and Jean Baudrillard explore the idea a what is the postmodern world and how it creates a postmodern condition in the people who inhabit it, but the two great thinkers come twosome different conclusions. "Answering the question: what is the postmodern?” by Jean-François Lyotard defines postmodernism as the death of the metanarrative, the explanations created for society for everything that happens.

The evolution of feminist theory from a modern to a postmodern viewpoint stands to correct the injustices of historically liberal feminism. For some time, grand narratives have governed the ideas of self and gender from a single experience of “man”. Traditionally, modern feminism aimed to eradicate the hegemonic theory of inferiority by women to the male gender. Postmodern feminism aspires to eliminate categories of gender altogether, for the social construct of gender is considered to disregard

So, the solution comes in the form of capitalism. Paul Wood discussed this, to be one of the main causes of the change in art on how capitalism by the 1980s have become “all-encompassing with no outside” (“Inside the whale: an introduction to postmodern art”, 16) meaning that without money to spend, the artist is destitute or if a thing has no price tag it’s close to nothing. The artist Mike Kelly once talked about in an interview how a cheap doll changed in worth because it turned into art. “Worth