Postmodern fiction is a genre that uses a postmodern philosophical perspective and has distinct characteristics such as advanced use of semantics, symbols, and philology. It is part of a larger art form and tends to borrow from earlier works. Its emotional themes include irony and playfulness. Its origin dates back to the late 1800s and has been linked to writers like James Joyce and philosophers like Derrida.
Postmodern fiction is a specific type of contemporary fiction that uses a postmodern philosophical perspective to address its audience. This type of fiction and literature has some distinct characteristics that mark it as belonging to this genre. While many experts may disagree on what exactly constitutes postmodern fiction, many libraries and similar institutions have been able to identify this category and compile lists of novels that constitute some of the most significant examples of this type of writing.
In general, postmodern fiction is part of a larger art form, where works of literature, music, theater and visual arts can be identified as postmodern. Many art analysts use the abbreviation “pomo” to identify postmodern works. In the general context of the great art world, postmodern art represents something new and relatively innovative, as well as often eclectic and widely produced.
Among the characteristics that make up postmodern narrative types, some experts point out that this type of literature makes advanced use of concepts such as semantics, or word associations, and semiotics, or the use of symbols. Other examples include philology, ideas that concern how people process incoming stimuli. For this reason, many consider postmodern fiction to be highly ‘technical’, or less organic than in earlier artistic eras. Postmodern fiction tends to anticipate a lot of literary criticism and uses literary symbolism quite aggressively, and even promoting the cliché or cheeky reference.
Along with the technical aspect of postmodern type fiction, others identify broad emotional themes in this type of literature. For example, some of the libraries listing postmodern fiction novels refer to the use of irony, as well as a certain sense of ‘play’, or an active ban on formalities, in this type of work. Postmodern fiction also tends to borrow concepts and ideas as well as icons, symbols and cognitive landmarks from earlier works of fiction or other works of art. This type of fiction can also borrow heavily from more abstract types of traditional ideas, such as those found in the Bible, Torah, Talmud, or Quran.
In terms of origin, many historians attribute the rise of the postmodern genre in fiction to the period following World War II, although use of the term dates back to the late 1800s. Some will promote classic writers as possible inspirations for postmodern fiction. For example, the dissociative work or stream of consciousness of Dublin writer James Joyce has been linked to the postmodern. Furthermore, the works of philosophers such as Derrida have also been identified as contributions to this particular art form, which many experts often say is based on a disconnect of ideas, mental collage, or a high incidence of non-sequiter writing.
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