LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 15:11 November 2015
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.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
         C. Subburaman, Ph.D. (Economics)
         N. Nadaraja Pillai, Ph.D.
         Soibam Rebika Devi, M.Sc., Ph.D.
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Postmodernism Marxist Critiques

Mudasir Habib, Ph.D. Research Scholar

Abstract

This article argues how postmodernism is covertly ideological. The article presents a critique. This work will attempt to examine Eagleton, Jameson and other Marxist theorists, their approaches to postmodernism. Sketch the ambiguities and contradictions in their claims and to outline the influence of postmodernism in their writings. The present study is analytical and qualitative in nature.

Keywords: Eagleton, Jameson, Marxist theorists, Marxism, post Marxism and postmodernism.

Introduction: Postmodernism versus Modernism

Postmodernism marks the destruction of magnificent narratives that controlled the human life. Modernism had been nostalgic for the values of the past. Postmodern logic calls this nostalgia as a miscalculated idealistic extravaganza. The aesthetic of postmodern is flat: it is a time not of nostalgic concern but of the joyous celebration of chaos. The old distinction between ‘high and low’, ‘vice and virtue’, ‘nature and culture’, are dissolved and boiled down to empty images aimlessly wandering in the newly made homogeneous solution. Postmodernism is confusing and baffling to define, there is at the heart of it what Ihab Hassan called ‘to become intimate with chaos’ or Francis Fukuyama’s notorious proclamation of ‘the end of history’.

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Mudasir Habib
Makhdoomsahib
Srinagar -190003
Jammu and Kashmir
India

Institute Affiliation:
Research Scholar, Department of English, Kashmir University
Srinagar
Jammu and Kashmir
India
mudasirhabib28@gmail.com

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