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Definition of "postmodernist" [postmodernist]

  • Postmodern (adjective)
  • An advocate or follower of postmodernism. (noun)

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Use "postmodernist" in a sentence
  • "Perhaps the strangest element of Auster’s reputation as an American postmodernist is that his language never registers this kind of absence at the level of the sentence."
  • ""Book Development" is like when you have the Magical Conversation with your Potential Agent, and the Agent asks you where you see your Revisions headed, and you are all like, "I really envision this novel as a sort of homage to Anna Karenina, with certain postmodernist elements, and of course the meta-narrative which references freely both The Society of the Spectacle and Ulysses," and your Potential Agent is all like, "Yeah, totally!"
  • "Often post-Soviet Russian literature is called postmodernist when what is really meant is that it is post-Soviet."