Pastiche – A work of art, drama, literature, music, or architecture that imitates the work of a previous artist
Parody – A work or performance that imitates another work or performance with ridicule or irony
Bricolage – A useful term to apply to postmodernist texts as it ‘involves the rearrangement and juxtaposition of previously unconnected signs to produce new codes of meaning’ (Barker & Jane, 2016:237)
Inter Textuality – One text is referencing another. Suggests signs only have meaning in reference to other signs and that meaning is therefore a complex process of decoding/encoding with individuals both taking and creating meaning in the process of reading texts
Meta Narrative – Big/overall thing. A narrative account that experiments with or explores the idea of storytelling, often by drawing attention to its own artificiality
Hyper Reality – The inability to distinguish reality from a simulation of reality
Simulacrum – An image or representation of someone or something
Consumerist Society – Social and economic order that encourages an acquisition of goods and services in ever-increasing amounts.
Fragmentary Identities – Our experience of having a self and of being a self
Implosion – An instance of something collapsing violently inwards/ sudden collapse/failure of an organisation or system
Cultural appropriation – The unacknowledged or inappropriate adoption of the customs, practices, ideas, etc. of one people or society by members of another and typically more dominant people or society.
Reflexivity – Examination of one’s own belief, judgments and practices during the research process and how these may have influenced the research
