A Postmodern Cultural Perspective in Lolita and A Streetcar Named Desir

A Postmodern Cultural Perspective in Lolita and A Streetcar Named liking Post modernness has emerged as a reaction to modernism thoughts and well-established modernist systems. (Wikipedia, 2005) Specific to Nabokovs Lolita and Williams Streetcar Named Desire is the idea that both of the novels ar stool verbally under the view of postmodernism as a ethnic movement and that they are broadly defined as the condition of Western partnership oddly after World War II (period in which the novel were pen 1947 for Streetcar and 1955 for Lolita). While modernists viewed people as autonomous (capable of independent shrewd thought), postmodernists see homo identity and thinking as the product of culture. (Xenos Christian Fellowship, 2005). The postmodern main assumption here is t hat culture and society create individuals as well as all their thoughts and attitudes. Lolita and A Streetcar Named Desire both treat of Cultural Relativism, which is the view that each culture has its receive truths that are relevant to them, but not relevant to other cultures. (Wikipedia, 2005) frugal changes, immigration, capitalism expansion, development of mass and popular culture, which result of the post-war period volition also play a great role in shaping cultural perspectives in Nabokov and Williams stories and characters but also in defining the American culture itself. The main characters serve as archetypes of different cultures and symbolizes the integration of atomic number 63 in the the Un... ...umberts European ear also revises American idiom when he talk about his west-door neighbor. (Lolita, p. 179) To conclude, both stories have a strong cultural orientation, which result from the post World War II environment, in which a crassly materialistic and insensitive industrial society followed. The postmodern assumption that human identity and thinking are the product of culture and that culture and society create individuals as well as all their thoughts and attitudes (Xenos Christian Fellowship, 2005), is clear demonstrated by Lolitas consumerist ideals and Blanches collapse in the new southern culture.