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Abstract
Postmodern literature is a significant cultural and intellectual movement that challenges traditional literary conventions and embraces complexity, fragmentation, and ambiguity. Emerging in the mid-20th century, postmodern literature rejects grand narratives, celebrates subjectivity, and uses experimental forms to question reality and truth. This article explores the role of postmodern literature in reshaping literary norms and its broader cultural implications. It discusses the movement’s historical context, key characteristics, and major contributions to themes such as identity, history, and the human condition. Through an analysis of seminal works and theoretical frameworks, the article reveals how postmodern literature has influenced contemporary thought and created new postmodern literature, literary, characters, modernism, criticue,
parody, literary theory possibilities for narrative innovation.
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