Postmodernism: Questioning the Objective Truth Associated with Enlightenment
Many readers enjoy books and stories that go outside of the social norm because they like to “stick it to the man” or maybe they just don’t like that people who lived before them developed to make the boundaries that we live by in our society. Who gives the authority to inscribe an entire generation with their beliefs? This is because, for years, those same people also had to follow a set of rules they probably did not believe in themselves. This is how I think postmodernism came to be with the original disobedience in writing came. The point of postmodernism is to go against traditional classifications to question the objective truth associated with the enlightenment, and to prove that there are no social truths but social constructs that our society to all of its actions. Who created society? Who made the rules and stated them as eternal truths? That is what postmodernist want to know and why they write and speak to vocalize that feeling they get from “being told what to do.” In Light Boxes, Shane Jones made it obvious how he felt about the social norm when he got this book published. He wrote the book as if to say I do not have to follow any previous guidelines if I don’t believe in them. Or, maybe he feels like to go against society by using artwork, like our friend “Mr. Brainwash.” The feeling of being constricted to earlier processes because that is what has been done before. In the story Light Boxes the author uses different sizes of text and expressing a paragraph on page or just one person’s viewpoints. He even makes list in the middle of the writing. Six Reports from the Priest 1. The Solution attempted to fly today 2. They failed 3. To hell with February, one member shouted. The rest cheered. They are a loud bunch. They wear bird masks. They throw apple through clouds. 4. The balloon collapsed on one side. The flames shot up. The flames spilled out and crawled across the
Bibliography: Jones, Shane. Light Boxes. New York: Penguin, 2010. Print. King, Thomas. "The Truth about Stories: a Native ... - Thomas King." Google Books. Web. 02 Dec. 2011. <http://books.google.com/books?id=yyt5lyvBr18C>. Exit through the giftshop