Kiran Desai’s ‘The Inheritance of Loss’: A Post-modern Perspective

Abstract

The term ‘Post-modernism’ means different things to different people. There are different versions of post-modernism. The word originally used in architecture by Toynbee. Soon it is known as cultural situation, a critical practice and an economic condition. Post-modernism is not synonymy for ‘contemporary’ even though it is certainly present in the contemporary context. In fact, the term post-modernism has been in vogue. It is a critical tag for a host of contemporary writings.