B2 Non-refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book
Hyperhybridism: Postmodernism is Old but Not Old Fashioned
Authors: Ghasemi Mehdi
Editors: Joel Kuortti and Sirkku Ruokkeinen
Publication year: 2020
Book title : Movement and Change in Literature, Language, and Society
First page : 153
Last page: 170
ISBN: 978-3-89665-867-8
Web address : https://www.amazon.com/Movement-Literature-Language-Academia-Philosophical/dp/3896658670
A number of scholars and critics have announced the death of postmodernism. Some of them have also attempted to conceptualize the aftermath of postmodernism through introducing some successors to postmodernism. In this paper, I first outline the debates made on the death and aftermath of postmodernism and the efforts made to introduce and label its successor. I then argue that postmodernism has got old but not old-fashioned or dead, and through the passage and requirements of time, it has recycled some of its assumptions. I also introduce “hyperhybridism” as another successor to postmodernism, which synchronically lives along with its ancestor and recalibrates some of the postmodernist tenets.