Theorizing Flash Fiction: Postmodern Perspectives (Routledge Focus on Literature)

Theorizing Flash Fiction: Postmodern Perspectives aims to theorize the genre of flash fiction.A close theoretical analysis of the genre brings forth the supposition that for any genre to thrive and dominate, the literary fabric of times must become conducive to the form it harbingers. Flash fiction, as a genre, thrives on multiplicity and plurality, and detests categorization.It, in a way, mirrors the age in which it comes to the fore.Postmodernism, with its celebration of the loss of fixed centers and power structures, can very evidently be seen reflected in the form.As it walks the tight rope of postmodernism, where Wittgenstein's 'anything goes' becomes the norm, it carves a niche for itself which is both conventional and revolutionary.The book reads the genre of flash fiction, engaging with the characteristic and theoretical underpinnings of postmodernism establishing it as a quintessential postmodern form that embodies the conjectural ideas of the age in its wake.It theorizes the