Post modernism is the term used to suggest contemporary literature of the last half of the 20th century. This literature is used to describe certain characteristics of post World War II literature. It is also a reaction against enlightenment ideas implicit in modernist literature. This age is specially marked by the literature of fragmentation and unstable text.
The key authors of this time include Salman Rushdie, R.K. Narayan, Anita Desai, Arundhati Roy. According to few post modernists, the age of post modernism actually begins with the death of Irish author James Joyce and English writer Virginia Wolf in 1941. Others believe that the modernism begins with lectures sign, structure and play by Derrida in 1966.
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