post-postmodernism

English

Etymology

From post- +‎ postmodernism.

Noun

post-postmodernism (uncountable)

1. A wide-ranging set of developments in critical theory, philosophy, architecture, art, literature, and culture which are emerging from and reacting to postmodernism.

   Coordinate terms: metamodernism, postmodernism

   • 2011, Stephen J. Burn, Jonathan Franzen at the End of Postmodernism, A&C Black, →ISBN:

     But it should be stressed that the post-postmodernism outlined here is not an achieved position that exists rigidly across Franzen's three novels. If postmodernism, as Patricia Waugh argues, represents a mood of intense “dissatisfaction or loss of […]

   • 2015, Brian McHale, The Cambridge Introduction to Postmodernism, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 177:

     As we have seen, post-postmodernism was first associated with writers in the nineties, such as David Foster Wallace, who sought to differentiate themselves from postmodern writers of the preceding generation (Barth, Pynchon, and others), […]

   • 2016, Lukas Hoffmann, Postirony: The Nonfictional Literature of David Foster Wallace and Dave Eggers, transcript Verlag, →ISBN, page 10:

     Postirony is only one term in use for the group of writers I investigate in this book, the others being post-postmodernism and new sincerity. However, not one of these labels seems applicable without causing problems.

Related terms

• postpostmodern

Further reading

• post-postmodernism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia