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AN EVALUATION OF POSTMODERNIST AESTHETICS IN KURT VONNEGUT'S SLAUGHTERHOUSE - FIVE K. Chellamuthu Associate Professor of English
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Collge, C. P. A. |
| Copyright Year | 2011 |
| Abstract | In his address at the Library of Congress in 1963, Saul Bellow, the celebrated American writer aptly commented on postmodernist American fiction: 'American novels are filled with complaints over the misfortune of the sovereign self '. It is true that the idea of the 'self' received a jolt with the two World Wars and the Russian Revolution of 1917. The horrendous German tragedy of 1939 saw the reduction of thousands of human beings into heaps of bones. The individual struggling hard to maintain his identity and the 'self' being asked to prepare itself for sacrifice are some of the salient features of the situation reflected in contemporary American fiction. The prefix 'post' doesn't imply a new era; rather, it indicates a reaction, in the wake of the Second World War, against absolute systems of knowledge and philosophical certainty which adorned the foundations of Modernism. Though postmodernist literature doesn't mention all genres of works written in the postmodern period, several postwar developments in literature such as the 'Theatre of the Absurd ', the 'Beat Generation' and 'Magic Realism' have close similarities. These developments are occasionally collectively referred to as 'postmodern'. Some key figures like Samuel Beckett, William S. Burroughs, Jorge Louis Borges, Julio Corta'zar and Gabriel Garcia Ma'rquez are cited as the most significant contributors to the postmodern aesthetic. |
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