Would McCarthy fall under postmodernism? Why?/Why not?

>>9292019
Absolutely not. McCarthy is a storyteller, not whatever postmodernism claims to be.

>>9292019
Later McCarthy are little better than adventure novels, and as such could probably be put under genre fiction.

Suttree, Blood Meridian, and Child of God are all subversive and inconoclastic takes on traditional Americana (the southern gothic, the western, the serial killer) and as such could probably be considered postmodern. The obscurantist end of Blood Meridian for example, or the sympathetic take on Lester's search for "love".

There are practically no authors who identify themselves as postmodernists. It is a term used by critics that has come into currency because of its convenience for critics. Don't get hung up on the term, or in trying to suss out whether your favorite author fits neatly into a category with no clear borders or definitions.
My hot take:postmodernism doesn't even exist. We are still in the late stage of modernism where inferiority is the focus, it's just that the landscape of the inner has changed/is changing fast and drastically.

>>9292100
interiority*

>>9292019
what paradigm of modernity was he supposed to problematize/surpass?


of course he doesn't fall under "postmodernism" even by the most jaded understanding of what is a vacuous term.

I don't think so, but some of his work has postmodern features. The deconstruction of the Western in Blood Meridian (cowboys vs. Indians, the Judge's victory at the end, etc.) could be called postmodern. But stuff like No Country For Old Men is basically straight plot.

>>9292100
>inferiority is the focus

I have been quite into contemporary literature as of late, and "identity" dominates the literary horizon right now. grotesque

The definition of postmodernism changes everytime Pynchon releases a new book