More on my dissertation

[skull_bearer]

It's kinda wierd when you're trying to make the point that soemthing ended up being postmodernist Holocaust writing although ti was written at a time when postmodernism didn't exist, Holocaust literature didn't exist, and the Holocaust itself was more of a case of looking out of a window and seeing for yourself.

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[sorion.livejournal.com]

I don't think you'll have any issues arguing the post-modernism angle... There have been many examples of it prior to WWII.
Sounds like a heavy and painful topic. Best of luck with your dissertation :)

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

Many a postmodernist seems to believe that postmodernism is, well, modern.

T'ain't so. It depends on where you're sitting at the time. Where did people in historical time consider they lived? Now- therefore Edward Gibbon's 'Decline and Fall' is postmodernist because no one before him had looked at things in quite that way however dated that view now appears to us.

A lot of the post Christopher Hill et al generation in my own field believe that they're being terribly postmodern but all they succeed in doing is to show how little they read back into historiography and that they've forgotten or rejected (and fair enough in the latter case) Marxist thinking.

Hope it all comes together well for you.