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A late 20th-century style in the arts, architecture, and criticism that represents a departure from modernism. |
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| Qualities of Postmodernism |
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1. An emphasis of impressionism, abstraction and subjectivity.
2. Manipulation of point of view (perspectivism)
3. Genre blurring (experimental)
4. Media Blurring
5. Manipulation traditional story arc
6. Stream of Concsiousness (Narrator's thoughts)
7. Self-consciousness (calls attention to theirselves)
8. More epiphanies
9. Subtler, more ambiguous endings. |
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The Power and the Glory
(Author, Main Plot, Main Characters) |
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Author: Graham Greene
Main Plot: Priest trying to find his way home
Main Characters: The Priest, The Lieutenant, The Mestizo, Coral Feltlows, The boy, Brigida, Maria, Padre Jose, Mr. Tench, The Gringo, Captian Fellows, Mr. Lehr, Miss Lehr, The woman, Juan, The pious woman, the jefe. |
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Franny and Zooey
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Author: J.D. Salinger
Main Plot: Franny is going through something and Zooey helps her understand
Main Characters: Franny Glass, Zooey Glass, Bessie Glass, Buddy Glass, Lane Coutell |
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Everything is Illuminated
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Author: Jonathan Safran Foer
Main Plot: Jonathan goes on a journey to find out who hepled his grandpa, with help of Alex, his grandfather, and a dog.
Main Characters: Alex, Grandfather, Lista, Jonathan Safran Foer |
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The Guest
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Author: Albert Camus
Main Plot: Daru has to decide on whether to take the Arab to jail or not.
Main Characters: Daru, Balducci, The Arab |
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Good Country People
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Author: Flannery O'Connor
Main Plot: Hulga meets a bible salesman and get tricked
Main Characters: Joy/Hulga, Manly Pointer, Mrs. Hopewell, Mrs. Freeman |
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Black Woman
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Author: Leoplod Sedhar Senghor
Main Plot: The Beauty of a black woman
Main Characters: The Black woman |
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Notes of a Native Son
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Author: James Baldwin
Main Plot: The little boy has to try and tackle the racism at the time. esp with his white teacher
Main Characters: the boy, father |
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The Yellow Woman
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Author: Leslie Marmon Silko
Main Plot: The native american woman runs of with a random guy and she is thinking that she is the "Yellow Woman" her grandfather told her about.
Main Characters: Kochininako/Yellow Woman, Narrator, Old Grandpa, The Rancher, Silva, |
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Chike's School Days
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Author: Chinua Achebe
Main Plot:
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Girl
(Author, Main Plot, Main Characters) |
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Author: Jamaica Kincaid
Main Plot: A mother tells her daughter how to live, gives advice.
Main Characters: Mother, Girl |
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Sensini
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Author: Roberto Bolano
Main Plot: The narrator writes back and forth to a writer named Sensini, who gives him advice
Main Character: Narrator, Sensini, Sensini's Daughter |
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