The Book
The book provides an introduction to postmodern literatures by exploring its interactions with a range of subjects such as history, technology, media, gender, and the postcolonial. Postmodern readings have increasing significance in the “virtual and real worlds we inhabit today”. Through a detailed study of selected texts, the book examines the features, trajectories and narratives of this literary movement, and showcases how the experience of reading postmodern literature can be enhanced by active engagement with the text.
The Author(s)
Avishek Parui teaches at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras
The editor
Pramod K. Nayar teaches at the Department of English, University of Hyderabad
Table of Contents
Series Editor’s Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Memory, History and Identities in Postmodern Narratives
2. Postmodernism, Literature and Technology
3. Postmodernism, Gender and Performativity
4. Postmodernism and the Postcolonial
Conclusion
Timeline
Index