Key Concepts:

RE-IMAGINING, PASTICHE, PARODY, COPY, BRICOLAGE.

Postmodernism is seen as a complicated and fragmentary set of inter relationships , it is about self-referentiality .

Can be seen as a Parody or Pastiche

Pastiche – is a work of art, drama, literature, music or architecture that imitates the work of previous artists.

parody – is a work or performance that imitates another work or performance with ridicule or irony

Postmodernism suggest we live in a world full of surface signs.

Bricolage – is 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)

Intersexuality – is another useful term to use, as it 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

In postmodern society we are unable to distinguish Fiction from Reality.