POSTSTRUCTURALISM, POSTMODERNISM AND NARRATIVE
Poststructuralism with its notions of différance, textuality and intertextuality destroyed the notion of a single author, meaning or text.
By positing multiplicities, lines of flight, openness and anti-totality, postmodernism proposed fragmentation, freedom and
simulation.
Contemporary fiction in the work of Umberto Eco, John Barth, Thomas Pynchon, Milan Kundera, Gabriel García
Márquez, Don De Lillo, Salman Rushdie, Irvine Welsh, Graham Swift and Martin Amis.
These authors destroy our views of what a text is and what the author means. They ask us to distrust their authorial voice.
These are the features of the postmodern–poststructuralist narrative form. Thinkers like Brian McHale (1992) and Linda Hutcheon (1995) have the numerous narrative consequences of these developments in Theory.
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