I will introduce Postmodernism for two reasons:
- The novel "Oranges are not the Only Fruit" is a typical post modernism novel.
- Post modernism is a matter to study for the exams.

It developed during the sixties and it main tenets are:
- It doesn't no longer believe in the concept of centre as it generally happened in previous generations.
- It does no longer believe in the concept of authority and truth.

If Modernism (which covers the first 30 decades of the century) was still looking for a centre for point of reference and put the question on art at the centre, Postmodernism questions all that and there is no longer a single centre, because saying that there is no absolute truth also imply that there is no meaning. There is no longer one centre but there are many centre and meaning is always differed: there is a continuous slipping of meaning because meaning is never stable. The concept is connected to the relationship between signifier and to signified.
The position of the reader is the best one because it is the reader who gives the meaning of what reads.

Perfect examples of Postmodernism are:
- "Oranges are not the Only Fruit" which relies on a restructuring of the Bible structure in a new context and in which there is a lot of intertextuality.
- "Nice Work" by David Lodge.