Disorientation And Fragmentation: A Postmodernist Perspective In Ian Mcewan’s Amsterdam And Atonement

S.V. Lekshmi Sri, Dr. D. Radharamanan Pillai

Abstract


The aim of this article is to focus on the study of disorientation and fragmentation in Ian McEwan’s novels. It attempts to give the explanation of postmodernism and employ in the novels of Amsterdam and Atonement. Ian McEwan has one of the controversial writers among other writers in Contemporary British Novelists. In his works, he has traced situation and circumvent of the individual characters which has exposed how their life is, how they are involved in worst situation and circumvent and how their mind is entangled due to personal issues. Primarily his works has reflected under the basics of postmodernism. Everything has analyzed according to the postmodern perspective. His works not only focus on disorientation and fragmentation but also on various themes such as guilt, unchangeable past, class difference, societal pressure and so on.

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Disorientation, Fragmentation, postmodernist perspective, Ian McEwan

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