Despite often being described as the prototypical author of postmodern literature, in a letter to Dietmar Böhnke, Alasdair Gray has this to say about postmodernism, ”Post modernism seems the creation of scholars acquiring a territory to lecture upon.” - thus ridiculing his status as a postmodern writer.
In this paper, I'll work closely with Gray's short story collection, Glaswegians, and will interpret whether it is modern, postmodern, or post-postmodern. To assist my determination, I will investigate the history of the postmodern, dividing it into its philosophical and cultural vocabularies. The result of my investigation and interpretation is that Glaswegians is a post-postmodern work because, despite the play with what could be called a postmodern elements, it provides the reader with answers to postmodern dilemmas and points to something “outside the text”.
Table of Contents
1. Postmodern Thought
2. Postmodern Culture
3. Gray's Glaswegians
4. Bibliography
- Quote paper
- John Dorsch (Author), 2014, Toward Post-Postmodernism. About Alasdair Gray's "Glaswegians", Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/412281
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