Summary Of The Postmodernist Turn

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“The Postmodernist Turn” by J. David Hoeveler Jr. was written about the 1970s during what is called the postindustrial period. Throughout the 1970s the United States became the world’s foremost postindustrial civilization. There were new conditions that changed the way Americans operated, and even their insights of reality. Chapter 1 of “The Postmodernist Turn” is about postindustrailism after the second industrial revolution, the second chapter of “The Postmodernist Turn” is called wars of words and it’s about the literality advancements in the United States. During the first chapter Hoeveler started off by telling about how postindustrailism changed America. America and the American life changed, from the exact way people made their living

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