Toward Post-Postmodernism. About Alasdair Gray's Glaswegians

Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject Literature - Comparative Literature grade: 10 University of Tubingen course: Dubliners and Glaswegians language: English abstract: Despite often being described as the prototypical author of postmodern literature in a letter to Dietmar Böhnke Alasdair Gray has this to say about postmodernism Post modernism seems the creation of scholars acquiring a territory to lecture upon. - thus ridiculing his status as a postmodern writer. In this paper I'll work closely with Gray's short story collection Glaswegians and will interpret whether it is modern postmodern or post-postmodern. To assist my determination I will investigate the history of the postmodern dividing it into its philosophical and cultural vocabularies. The result of my investigation and interpretation is that Glaswegians is a post-postmodern work because despite the play with what could be called a postmodern elements it provides the reader with answers to postmodern dilemmas and points to something outside the text.