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POSTMODERNISM
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Postmodernism is typically defined by an attitude of skepticism or distrust toward grand narratives, ideologies, and various tenets of Enlightenment rationality, including the existence of objective reality and absolute truth, as well as notions of rationality, human nature, and progress. It asserts that knowledge and truth are the product of unique systems of social, historical, and political discourse and interpretation, and are therefore contextual and constructed. Accordingly, postmodern thought is broadly characterized by tendencies to epistemological and moral relativism, pluralism, self-referentiality, and irony.
An instrumental part of postmodernist literature is the tendency to push modernist thought to the extremes.
Postmodernism, Partition and Indian Independence
Po-Mo Examples
Literature
- Infinite Jest, Wallace
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Thompson
- American Psycho, Ellis
- Catch-22, Heller
- Gravity's Rainbow, Pynchon
Film
- Taxi Driver (1976)
- Blade Runner (1982)
- Eternal Sunshine (2004)
- Inception (2010)
- Her (2013)
Independence for India
"saffron and green"
The Earl Mountbatten
The Indian Independence Act 1947 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that partitioned British India into the two new independent dominions of India and Pakistan. The Act received the royal assent on 18 July 1947, and Pakistan came into being on 15 August at the same time as Indian independence. However, due to Mountbatten's need to be in New Delhi for the transfer of power, Pakistan celebrated its formation a day ahead on 14 August 1947 to enable the viceroy Lord Mountbatten to attend both events
He was the last Viceroy of India (1947) and the first Governor-General of the independent Dominion of India (1947–48), from which the modern Republic of India emerged in 1950.