FitzGerald’s antiwar case was built on postmodern critique of abstraction

Evidence

In the clash she constructs of a vast, stark, dualistic, abstract universe of the United States and a local, particular, personalized, embodied universe of Vietnam, FitzGerald makes a postmodern case for the catastrophic limitations and destructiveness of Western modernity. — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited, 710

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Officials’ generalization of the NLF to a category obscured its reality — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the…, 711; FitzGerald constructed Vietnamese culture as postmodern in her very mode of describing it — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the…, 747; A novel can stage antiwar protest as mere self-indulgence rather than politics (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• A novel can stage antiwar protest as mere self-indulgence rather than politics #exemplifies (0.85)
• Postmodernism’s rejection of unified representation leads logically to pragmatic localism. #expands (0.80) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 353