Postmodernism

Postmodernism is the leading movement and worldview-stylistic situation in the culture and literature of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, which succeeded Modernism and is characterized by skepticism toward 'grand narratives', pluralism, irony, play, the mixing of the 'high' and the 'popular', intertextuality, pastiche, and de-canonization. Postmodern literature quotes, parodies, and rewrites the preceding tradition and destroys the boundary between author and reader. World models are the prose of Umberto Eco (The Name of the Rose), Milan Kundera, and John Barth. In Ukrainian literature Postmodernism announced itself vividly at the turn of the 1980s and 1990s: the work of the poetic group Bu-Ba-Bu (Yurii Andrukhovych, Viktor Neborak, Oleksandr Irvanets), the novels of Yurii Andrukhovych (Recreations, The Moscoviad, Perverzion), and the prose of Oksana Zabuzhko and Yurko Izdryk, who combined irony, carnival, intellectualism, and national problems.