Ameerika kirjandus alates I maailmasõjast kuni tänapäevani.
everything is interconnected, itnerrelated, intertextuality. The influence of earlier texts or later
texts, another important feature is the attitude of death. Death in postmoderism, death is
meaningful, even after death the self does not dissapear completely. In modernism there was
collective memory, remembering, in postmodernism there is amnesia, loss of memory. Thats
why in postmodernism it is important to discover what is lost. Decentering of history, we get
new historys instead. Postcolonial period is new history, feminist theory. In feminism there is
decentering of the male subject. In postmodernism history is ongoing and neverending,
whatever shuts down discourse means death.
Different types of postmodernism- derrida and deconstruction-there is no distinction boarders
between high and low culture. Like modernists derrida believed in fragmentation in language