THE INFLUENCE OF POSTMODERNISM ON AMERICAN LITERATURE DEVELOPMENT
Keywords:
postmodernism, American literature, narrative innovation, metafiction, fragmentation, cultural critique, literary theoryAbstract
Postmodernism initiated modern approaches on reading, storytelling, and meaning-making and revolutionised American literature gradually. Accordingly, these changes firstly revolutionized in the second half of the 20th century. Postmodern authors, in turn, adopted fragmentation, metafiction, parody, and intertextual play in place of modernism's structured narratives as well as moral clarity.
The study shows a shift from realism to experimental as well as self-aware storytelling and highlights the philosophical underpinnings of postmodernism by its most recognisable literary devices. It also emphasizes how the strategies impacted popular genres as well as high literature. Thus, providing a general overview of how postmodernism impacted on altering American literature level in its cultural prospects and ultimately led to the discovery of new creative opportunities is the primary objective of this article
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