Postmodern fiction resists from within instead of opposing wholesale

Evidence

As postmodern narratives, in which oppositional modernist writing cohabits with popular fictional convention, both novels choose and enact a postmodern form of resistance-from-within. They leave behind the modernist/avant-garde mode of wholesale opposition, in which the new aesthetic stands as representation, harbinger, embodiment of a world made new. — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited, 945

Categorization

• DEFINE: Concise definition of the book’s core distinction: postmodern ‘resistance-from-within’ versus modernist totalized oppositionality.
• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source
• XREF: connects to: Barthes saw avant-garde literature as resistance to, not enforcer of, bourgeois hegemony — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the…, 246; Postmodern texts relate through difference rather than organic unity — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 120; Postmodernist texts resist thematic meaning and are flawed when interpretation succeeds — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 243 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Postmodern texts relate through difference rather than organic unity #expands (0.85) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 120
• Postmodernism abolishes the inside-outside distinction that modernism still presupposed #expands (0.85) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 259
• Postmodernist texts resist thematic meaning and are flawed when interpretation succeeds #qualifies (0.75) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 243
• Postmodernism is a tendency within late modernism, not its successor #qualifies (0.75) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 236
• Some fiction mirrors infinite-scroll attention while resisting its logic. #exemplifies (0.70) — , The Braided Reading EPUB, 1129
• Periodizing postmodernism as a unified system may betray its own logic of difference #complicates (0.70) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 739