POSTMODERNISM

Postmodernism developed during the 60ies and its main tenets are:

1. it does no longer believe in the concept of truth, it puts therefore the questions of authority into doubt;

2. it does no longer believe in the concept of a centre as it generally happen in all the previous generations.

If modernism (covers the first three decades of the 20th century) was still looking for a centre for a point of reference and put the question and research on art at the centre, postmodernism questions all that and comes to the conclusion that there is no longer a single centre because saying that there is no absolute truth, also emplays that there is not meaning.

There is no longer one centre, but many centres therefore meaning is always differed there is a continuous slipping of meaning because meaning is never stabled.

The concept is connected to the relationship between:

1. signifier

2. signified

The position of the reader is the privileged one because is the reader that gives the meaning, one of the possible meanings, to what he/she is reading.

A perfect example of postmodernism is Oranges are not the Only Fruits which relays on a re-structuring of the Bible structure in a new context and there is a lot of inter-textuality.