Politics in Postmodernism – Linda Hutcheon, Concluding Outlines

 History is neither nostalgia nor aesthetic for postmodernist parodic and ironic critical analysis and
tools.
 It reveals a close connection
o Between the reception of art and society production.
o Between our ideological and historical way of perceiving and acting in the society.
 It is not necessarily to remove seriousness in postmodern art in order to include irony.
 “History proves that forms and models survive the type of power and that their meaning changes
in time, according to the social use that is made of them.”
 Postmodernism used and transformed the modernist premises (the complete structure of
modernism).
 Function of Parody in Postmodernist literature
 Parody is one way of linking art with “world”.
 It ridicules imitation and ironically recontexutalizes history.
 Postmodernist parody uses its historical memory and aesthetic introversion.
 It does not separate historical discourse from social discourse.
 According to postmodernist critics, language is connected to social discourse as form.
 The analysis of postmodernist parody is helpful to understand and investigate the relationship of
ideology and power to all of our present discourses.
 In this regard, Hutcheon choses the analysis of postmodern architecture as a typical example to
investigate the relation of power and ideology to our power and social discourse.