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sounds absurd and ambiguous. If any body says, “I am Postmodern”, it would apparently sound like saying “I am dead”. The only way to overcome the confusion is to concentrate on the suffix “ISM”. Here the suffix ‘ISM’ implies an organized system of Poetics and aesthetics.

   The main problem of understanding the concept of Postmodernism is whatsoever, its varied and vast scope and magnitude. It means different things to different person. It emphasizes the role of language, power relations, and motivations. In particular, it attacks the use of sharp classifications such as male versus female, straight versus gay, white versus black, and imperial versus colonial. Postmodernism has influenced many cultural fields, such as literary criticism , architecture, visual arts, and music and so. To a literary critic it is an aesthetic style, to some it is a Cultural situation or a critical practice while some others hold it as an economic situation. For example, to John Barth it is the literature of replenishment; to Charles Newman it is the literature of an inflationary economy. Again, Jean Francois Léonard views it as a general condition of knowledge in the contemporary informational regime; for Ibab Hassan it is a stage in the road of spiritual unification of human mind. Harry Levin, Leslie Fiedler, Irving Howe, Torrey Eagleton, Douw Fokkema, Frederic Jameson and others have also used the term in their own manner. The diversity reminds us of Lovejoys similar comment on Romanticism, that “There is not a single Romanticism but many —-“. The statement holds justification regarding Postmodernism too.

              According to an American economist of present time Postmodernism is the “dominant cultural logic of late

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