Postmodernism

the dispute was about government plots and secret societies, as if there’s an all-compassing force operating beneath the surface and vilely manipulating the mass. However, the conspiratorial world view was nothing new since during the time of postmodernism, many of the writers have already begun to contemplate the definition and utilization of paranoia. In Lot 49, Oedipa comes to realize that she may, like a paranoid, “be weaving together the patterns of events that she believes she is…

This is one reason why the historical shift of “postmodernism” in the early 20th century provided a more internalized historical shift that involved individual creativity and self-formation, which did not have to rely on the larger community. In this manner, the individual possessed the power via the “psychodynamic…

The relations between lingerie, feminism and post-feminism. This essay seeks to explore the phenomenon of antagonistic relationship between underwear and feminism, and discuss the role of lingerie in post-feminism. Since underwear has become a necessity and even designed as outerwear, like fashion, it has reflected females constructing their identity by wearing and buying different types of lingerie. ‘ Fashion is a reflection of social, economic, political, and cultural changes, but also that…

Afterwards, Thai feminists was influenced by the idea of postmodernism that Feminism should not view just only one side because Thai women have different backgrounds, races, cultures, tradition, social status, and education. So, postmodern feminists deeply focused on the diversity and experiences of women. From Trouble Gender by Butler also said that an effect of culturally influenced acts is from the appearance of “being” a gender, then there exists no solid, universal gender: constituted…

Many Christians have questioned how important Integration is in our society. Has it become detrimental to our cultures and churches or is it beneficial? It is important to consider the beginning and advancement of Integration to form a personal position on the matter. Integration is simply the process of integrating or combining into one whole. In the context of psychology, the word refers to the combining of Christianity and psychological studies. It is a stance one takes in trusting in the…

Introduction The benchmark of democratic society is that citizens have a participatory voice and a stake in decision-making, translating to (notional) control over their destiny. The generations-old bureaucratic work environment has taken control of work and organizational decision-making from workers as management focuses on realizing profit over supporting workers’ needs. The resulting lack of participation and dehumanization of work have led to power struggles and dissatisfying conditions in…

for the summer, cruising around their town in the narrator’s family station wagon. All three are nineteen years old and the narrator considers them ‘bad characters.’ According to Michael Walker’s on Boyle’s ‘Greasy Lake’ and the Moral Failure of Postmodernism, “the narrator of this story is not only as old as Boyle himself, but has much the same background. Boyle, born in 1948, would have been 19 in 1967,...” so the events that the narrator goes through while may not exactly be an…

POSTMODERNISTIC PERSPECTIVE IN THE SELECT NOVELS OF SHASHI DESHPANDE AND MARGARET LAURENCE Women’s writing has reached a stage where its voice has reached globally throughout the world. Women are transformed from being the devastated and invalid victim of male power into becoming a subject in her own right. Thus the role of women changed into a one who can create a new world. Women writers have been turned out to the twenty first century with extraordinary self-confidence. The present study on…

Introduction The recent death of the evangelical patriarch Carl F. H. Henry brings great cause to those who are beneficiaries of his Evangelical heritage to meditate on his thoughts. In his book The Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism, Carl Henry discusses a strong theologically concentrated engagement for global social needs. Fifty-seven years have passed from the time that this book was first published and, while the gap may expose itself in the way this work was written, the main…

How Jamaica wrote in her stories fits in postmodernism. As readers read the story there is one thing that is significantly different from other short stories. The whole story is one big sentence. That’s crazy right! The whole story is a list of chores “to do” and it just keeps going on and on. There…