Extra Credit
Besides what you have to read, are you currently face deep in some fun-reading? Here are some Postmodernist faves of mine.
I'm wrapped up in the "Wheel of Time" series. Thanks, KB! I really need to know how Robert Jordan's The Eye of the World is going to resolve! It's a postmodern blend of fantasy, gritty reality, futuristic dystopia, and folksy love stories. Fabulism is where my postmodern heart is right now...
Last week I finished The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, by James McBride. This is a mash-up of secret lives, secret wells, and generational joy. I'm still not over the ending. Thank you, Monkey Pants. IYKYK.
Last year I read The Water Dancer, by Ta-Nehisi Coates. He's a well-known nonfiction writer, but this book is a Postmodernist paella of temporal distortion, historiographic metafiction, hyperreality, and black humor. This has magic, Harriet Tubman, and some of the most beautiful prose I have read.
Another book I recently read, coincidentally similar in setting, is The Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead. This one does with the legends surrounding America's Underground Railroad what Quentin Tarantino does with the Manson murders in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. It's part gritty history, part fabulism, lots of wish-fulfillment, and all terrific.
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A book I have recently read is Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. This book is about Harry Potter’s second year at the wizardry school, Hogwarts. In the book, his second year is filled with adventure when startling messages start appearing on the school's walls which leads Harry to go into the forbidden and infamous chamber of secrets. The Harry Potter book series as a whole is postmodernist because it is obviously magical realism because the whole book is about a school of wizards. Harry Potter also has the postmodernist characteristic of meta fiction because J.K Rowling makes the readers believe in the magic of the story (to an extent of course). Although this is a very popular book series, I have just recently dedicated myself to reading it, but I definitely see why people should read this amazing series.