Post-Modernism

Characteristics:
 * = Feminism embraced. =
 * = Challenges capitalism. =
 * = Blurred lines between fiction and reality. =
 * = A mixing of styles in the same text; discontinuity of tone, point of view, and logical sequence. =
 * = Work often has absurd, playful, or comic aspects. =
 * = Sometimes makes use of parody, pastiche, and analogy. =
 * = Emphasizes parody, bricolage, irony, and playfulness. =
 * = Examines the construction of nations/nationality; reassesses gender; questions and reassesses race and sexuality. =

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= WRITERS: =

= @Julia Alvarez =

= @Maya Angelou =

= Ray Bradbury =

= Erin Gruwell =

= @S. E. Hinton =

= @J. K. Rowling =

= Elie Wiesel =

= Paul Zindel =

= Markus Zusak =

Page updated 8/29/2012.