Encyclopedia of Postmodernism

Postmodernism has had its critics ‐ “anything goes”, “reality isn’t what it used to be”, epistemological bricolage, ontological nihilism, the death of history, the deconstruction of the text, the socially constructed text, the de‐differentiation between gender. With all that baggage, no wonder that postmodernism provoked criticism, above all from modernists who wanted notions of enlightenment progress, grand narratives of ideology and knowledge, differentiation between high and low art, and a reliably canonical critical position upheld. Postmodernism has come a long way since the 1960s, its first wave, and since then has developed its own historiography, changing with social change, inclusive...