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1782526 No.1782526 [Reply] [Original]

Why has postmodern liteature come primarily from the US?

>> No.1782527

because the rest of the world is retarded

>> No.1782528

It hasn't, though?

>> No.1782529
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>>1782527
But the Americans couldn't into realist fiction like the French or the Russians.

>> No.1782530

>>1782528
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodern_literature#Examples_of_postmodern_literature

>> No.1782538

>>1782530
>examples
>page probably edited by Americans

May as well ask why it is that Americans are more interested in editing the postmodern section of wikipedia?

>> No.1782548

>>1782538
OK, well seeing as I (OP) am asking this as an Englishman, why does there seem to be few (are there any?) major English postmodern authors, despite the English being good at literature historically?

>> No.1782552

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmoderner_Roman#Vertreter_des_postmodernen_Romans

You will now see that other nations have also postmodern writers.

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>>1782529
Doesn't know about American realism

>> No.1782555

>>1782553
Can't comprehend "like the French or the Russians".

>> No.1782577

Let's change the thread topic: name postmodern writers who aren't American.

>> No.1782595
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1782595

Because British people can't get over realism and and stuck up their own post-imperialist asses

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>>1782595
wrong picture derp

>> No.1782610

>>1782595
Honestly, British people never really cared about the Empire that much. We have never been really nationalistic, I don't think. Not like the Germans, Italians or Americans.
If British writers have gone on apologetically about the Empire then it must have been induced by the anti-imperialist, multiculturist and tolerant ideals that are globally pervasive today.

I don't the literature that came from when the sun never sat on the empire really aggrandized or glory-revelled at all.

>> No.1782613

>>1782610
What surprises me is that the English haven't taken to postmodernism so much when irony and sardonic wit are characteristically English.

>> No.1782616

>>1782577

Murakami

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>mfw d&e is still butthurt over the 6 counties

>> No.1782643

>>1782613
What surprises me is how Britain has gained a reputation for being pretentious, when as far as I can tell they've always striven to not be pretentious. This goes for their style of philosophy and literature, both of which seem to be more substantial.

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>>1782641
TIOCFAIDH ÁR LÁ

>> No.1782664

Capitalism demands novelty. America is the place where the arts are most directly subjected to the pressures of the marketplace. Postmodernism is a late capitalist phenomenon---it is only logical that it should register in America with greater force