Mark asked:
Anyway, what about my question: Does The Road fall under the
postmodern label?
*********** I've had some time to think about it today and I
don't see The Road carrying much of a postmodern load. The
religious symbolism sustains itself throughout the book
without facing deconstruction. The relationship between the
father and son is also treated with the utmost of respect,
even through tension and disagreement. Close family ties,
strongly felt emotions, and Biblical ideals form a system
that sustains them through the hardest of times.
So my answer is that The Road isn't specifically a postmodern
text. There are too many things that went well that could
have been deconstructed. Some things that I believe important
to a pomo interpretation are not even mentioned, like the
details about the end came.
miker
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