LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 12 : 8 August 2012
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
         A. R. Fatihi, Ph.D.
         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
Assistant Managing Editor: Swarna Thirumalai, M.A.

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Postmodern Perspectives in Salman Rushdie’s Select Novels Fury and Shalimar, The Clown

G. Surya, M.A., B.Ed., M.Phil.

Understanding Modernism and Postmodernism

Postmodernism is a way of life, a way of feeling, and a state of mind. Those who live in modern orthodoxy will certainly feel disturbed and disillusioned by the ‘existing state-of-the art’. Postmodernism is also a broad term used to describe movements in a wide range of disciplines including literature, architecture, visual arts, philosophy, sociology, fiction, design, cultural and literary criticism and music. The term postmodernism is notoriously ambiguous, implying either that modernism has been superseded or that it has continued into a new phase in the domain of literature and other arts.

Postmodernism’s relation to modernism is typically contradictory. It is neither a simple and radical break from it nor a straight forward continuity with it in aesthetical, philosophical and ideological terms. So, postmodernism is both a continuation of modernism’s alienated mood and disorienting techniques and at the same time as an abandonment of its determined quest for artistic coherence in a fragment world : in very crude terms, where a modernist artist or writer terms, the fragmented experiences are expressed through myth, symbol and other figurative devices. Post modernism is used to describe a particular body of literature, written in the mid-fifties and after in America, British and Europe.

Postmodern Literature of India

Postmodern literature of India refers to the works of literature after 1980s. The term ‘Post Modernism’ seems to have little relevance to modern poetic and dramatic works and used widely in reference to fiction. Postmodern fiction overtly displays its conventions; it lays bare the illusion of reality and its artifice. It also foregrounds the problematic relationship between life, fiction and the very existence of reality. It poses the questions of how the people know or construct history and truth, reality and events. It represents the contemporary experience of the world as a construction, an artifice, a web of interdependent semiotic systems.

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G. Surya, M. A., B.Ed., M. Phil.
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