Characteristics of Postmodernism

1. Experimentation

2. Structure

2.1. Temporal Distortion

2.2. Stream of Consciousness

2.3. Discontinuous Narrative

2.4. Fragmentation

2.5. intertextuality

2.6. Pastiche

2.7. Minimalism

2.8. Maximalism

2.9. Interesting Approach to Character

3. Language

3.1. Vulgar

3.2. Contemporary

3.3. Mixed Genres

3.4. Irony

3.5. Experimental

3.6. Informality

3.7. Metafiction (textual awareness)

4. Subject Matter

4.1. Playful

4.2. Youth culture

4.3. Contemporary Culture

4.4. Pop Culture

4.5. Psychology and Paranoia

4.6. Magical Realism

4.7. Dark Humor

4.8. Unusual

4.9. Trauma

4.10. Purposefully Confusing

4.11. Technoculture

4.12. Hyper-reality

4.13. Faction (Creative Non-fiction)

4.14. Self-reflexivity

4.15. Controversial Topics

4.16. Breaking social norms

4.17. alternate history

5. Point of View

5.1. Multiple Narrators

5.2. Subjectivity

5.3. Experimental

5.4. Creating Confusion