POSTMODERNISM'S NOTES
POSTMODERNISM
Postmodernism is a cultural movement. It develops after modernism that is after the sixties.
• The most important feature of postmodernism is that it questions the idea of authority, center and absolute truth because people don't believe in meaning.
(They don't believe in a unique meaning of the world.)
• If there is not a definite meaning there no origins ,there are only textual production. It follows that if there are many center, only intertextuality matters because no text have an original author or an original birth.
Another important feature of postmodernism is the concept of intertextuality according to which there is no original text. Every text is a product of intertextuality and if there is no original texts ,there is no a single author.
• An additional feature is that postmodernism does not distinguish between high and low art. This is the effect of the absence of something which was considered the center.
This is also the result of the advent of technologies and it's based on communication and so of internet.
POSTMODERNISM IN ORANGES ARE NOT THE ONLY FRUIT
At the end of the novel, named ‘' Oranges are not the only fruit''; Jeanette understands that is not an only vision of life. The title is a metaphor for the message of the novel. On different occasions in the novel Jeanette's mother asks her questions about the Bible and when Jeanette gives her the correct answer her mother gives her an orange in exange. So oranges were a prays.
CHAPETR 5 - DEUTERONOMY
Deuteronomy is the last book of Hebrew Bible. It tells about the laws that Moses gave to Israelites.
This chapter s important because the novelist addresses to the reader. There is a parallel between Deuteronomy and the chapter. Jeanette gives some law about postmodernism. The message , which is also a law, is that stories, fables and fantasy and history are made up; they are the result of production.