Historical foundation
This global conflict and its associated genocide shattered faith in Enlightenment ideals for many postmodern writers.
World War II (and the Holocaust)
This author wrote Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut
This trait involves a work that self-consciously draws attention to its own status as fiction.
metafiction
This 1987 novel centers on Sethe, a formerly enslaved woman haunted by the ghost of her baby. Written by Toni Morrison.
Beloved
True or false: Is this a postmodernist quote? "We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."
Yes
The pervasive fear during this prolonged standoff fueled themes of paranoia and absurdity in postmodern literature.
Cold war
The Pulitzer-winning author of Beloved
Toni Morrison
A narrative technique where the storyteller's credibility is compromised, forcing the reader to question the truth
unreliable narrator
"So it goes." is the refrain from this 1969 anti-war novel about the bombing of Dresden. Written by Kurt Vonnegut.
Slaughterhouse-Five
True or false: Is this a postmodernist quote? "Everything is a copy of a copy of a copy."
Don DeLillo
Postmodernism is largely a reaction against the order and certainty of this preceding cultural movement.
Modernism
This author wrote White Noise
Don DeLillo
This device involves imitating or recombining various styles, genres, or earlier works, often with a humorous or ironic twist
pastiche (or parody)
Don DeLillo's 1985 novel about a professor of Hitler studies and an "airborne toxic event."
White Noise
True or false: Is this a postmodernist quote?
"Not With a Bang But With a Whimper"
False (modernism quote)
Postmodernists rejected the Enlightenment ideals shattered by WWII, which included reason, morality, and this forward-moving concept.
progress
This reclusive author's complex, paranoia-filled novel Gravity's Rainbow is a cornerstone of the genre
Thomas Pynchon
A defining structural feature of postmodern texts, where the narrative is disjointed or non-linear.
fragmentation
Thomas Pynchon's 1973 encyclopedic novel following Tyrone Slothrop and the V-2 rocket in WWII.
Gravity's Rainbow
True or false: Is this a postmodernist quote?
"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affections, and the truth of imagination."
False (Romanticism quote)
Postmodernism rejects not just grand narratives, but also the idea of a single, knowable one of these.
Objective truth
Though not in the "Major Authors" list, this author of Naked Lunch is quoted saying, "Language is a virus from outer space."
William S. Burroughs
The rejection of these overarching explanations for history and human experience (like religion or progress) is a key postmodern stance.
grand narratives (or metanarratives)
The quote "The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there" opens this L.P. Hartley novel, often considered a precursor to postmodern themes.
The Go-Between
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