On Postmodernism For my short essay I will focus on a postmodern reading of Joyce Carol Oates, "How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Corrections and Began My Life Over Again." More precisely, as a postmodern text. Postmodernism refers to texts that reject coherence in a narrative, objective truth, and show doubts about the reliability of language to communicate. Postmodern techniques that are evident in Oates story were fragmented narrative, disrupted time …showed first 75 words of 1975 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1975 total…ntributes to this is the move to a visual culture largely in respect to television and movies. While these things are all hard to prove, and I'm not even trying to in this paper, they are interesting points brought on by reading postmodern literature. Maybe it will take a hundred years before the patterns can really be made sense of, and then they can be analyzed and taught in English classes during the next era.