Paradise Now embodies both modernist totality and postmodern local particularity at once

Evidence

The specificity of location in this text, again a pivot of modern to postmodern, points at once, in the interchangeability of locations, to modernist utopian totality, and also, in the careful emphasis on the particularity of the local, toward postmodern refusal of generalizing, totalizing metanarrative. Paradise Now is one of the clearest instances I have found of the defining simultaneity within characteristic sixties radical and countercultural texts of the dominant modern and emergent postmodern. — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited, 551

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Burroughs’s work spans both modernist and postmodern positions simultaneously — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the…, 607