List of postmodern critics

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• Jorge Luis Borges
  Jorge Luis Borges
  Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo , best known as Jorge Luis Borges, was an Argentine writer and poet born in Buenos Aires. In 1914, his family moved to Switzerland where he attended school and traveled to Spain. On his return to Argentina in 1921, Borges began publishing his poems and...
  
  
• Roland Barthes
  Roland Barthes
  Roland Barthes was a French literary theorist, philosopher, critic, and semiotician. Barthes's work extended over many fields and he influenced the development of schools of theory including structuralism, semiotics, existentialism, social theory, Marxism and post-structuralism.-Life:Roland...
  
  
• Jean Baudrillard
  Jean Baudrillard
  Jean Baudrillard was a French cultural theorist, sociologist, philosopher, political commentator, and photographer. His work is frequently associated with postmodernism and post-structuralism.-Life:...
  
  
• Michael Bérubé
  Michael Bérubé
  Michael F. Bérubé is the Paterno Family Professor in Literature at Pennsylvania State University, where he teaches cultural studies and American literature...
  
  
• Homi Bhabha
• Maurice Blanchot
  Maurice Blanchot
  Maurice Blanchot was a French writer, philosopher, and literary theorist. His work had a strong influence on later post-structuralist theorists such as Jacques Derrida.-Works:...
  
  
• Jay David Bolter
  Jay David Bolter
  Jay David Bolter is the Wesley Chair of New Media and a professor in the School of Literature, Communication and Culture at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Some of his main points of study include the evolution of media, the usage of technology in education, and the role of computers in the...
  
  
• Judith Butler
  Judith Butler
  Judith Butler is an American post-structuralist philosopher, who has contributed to the fields of feminism, queer theory, political philosophy, and ethics. She is the Maxine Elliott professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley.Butler...
  
  
• Pierre Bourdieu
  Pierre Bourdieu
  
  Pierre Bourdieu was an acclaimed French sociologist.Bourdieu pioneered investigative frameworks and terminologies such as cultural, social, and symbolic capital, and the concepts of habitus, field or location, and symbolic violence to reveal the dynamics of power relations in social life...
  
  
• Subimal Basak
  Subimal Basak
  Subimal Basak, one of the most original fiction writers among the Hungryalists , hails from a Bengali weavwer caste family, though his father Taraknath Basak, who came to India from Kaltabazar, Dhaka during partition...
  
  

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• Chantal Chawaf
  Chantal Chawaf
  Chantal Chawaf is a French writer.She was born in Paris, during the World War II. During her childhood, she studied art and literature. She travelled in Europe before living in the Middle East for some years. When she returned to France, she started publishing in 1974 at the Editions des Femmes,...
  
  
• Hélène Cixous
  Hélène Cixous
  Hélène Cixous is a professor, French feminist writer, poet, playwright, philosopher, literary critic and rhetorician. In 2009, she was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Literature by University College, London.- Biography :...
  
  
• Robert Coover
  Robert Coover
  Robert Lowell Coover is an American author and professor in the Literary Arts program at Brown University. He is generally considered a writer of fabulation and metafiction.-Life and works:...
  
  
• Alex Callinicos
  Alex Callinicos
  Alexander Theodore Callinicos is a Trotskyist political theorist, a member of the Central Committee of the Socialist Workers Party, and is Director of the Centre for European Studies at King's College London....
  
  
• Prabhat Choudhuri

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• Marjorie Garber
  Marjorie Garber
  Marjorie B. Garber is a professor at Harvard University and the author of a wide variety of books, most notably ones about William Shakespeare and aspects of popular culture including sexuality....
  
  
• Gerard Genette
  Gérard Genette
  Gérard Genette is a French literary theorist, associated in particular with the structuralist movement and such figures as Roland Barthes and Claude Lévi-Strauss, from whom he adapted the concept of bricolage....
  
  
• Sandra Gilbert
  Sandra Gilbert
  Dr. Sandra M. Gilbert , Professor Emerita of English at the University of California, Davis, is an influential literary critic and poet who has published widely in the fields of feminist literary criticism, feminist theory, and psychoanalytic criticism...
  
  
• Félix Guattari
  Félix Guattari
  Pierre-Félix Guattari was a French militant, institutional psychotherapist and philosopher, a founder of both schizoanalysis and ecosophy...
  
  
• Susan Gubar
  Susan Gubar
  Dr. Susan D. Gubar is an American academic. Distinguished Professor of English and Women's Studies. She has taught at Indiana University for more than twenty years. She is co-author with Dr. Sandra M...
  
  

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• Donna Haraway
  Donna Haraway
  Donna J. Haraway is currently a professor and chair of the History of Consciousness Program at the University of California, Santa Cruz, United States...
  
  
• Ihab Hassan
  Ihab Hassan
  Ihab H. Hassan is an American literary theorist and writer born in Egypt.-Biography:He was born in Cairo, Egypt, and emigrated to the United States in 1946. Currently he is Emeritus Vilas Research Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee...
  
  
• N. Katherine Hayles
  N. Katherine Hayles
  N. Katherine Hayles is a postmodern literary critic, particularly in the fields of literature and science, electronic literature, and American literature. She is a professor in the Program in Literature at Duke University....
  
  
• Linda Hutcheon
  Linda Hutcheon
  Linda Hutcheon is a Canadian academic working in the fields of literary theory and criticism, Opera, and Canadian Studies. Hutcheon describes her herself as "intellectually promiscuous", as she brings a cross-disciplinary approach to her work She is University Professor in the Department of...
  
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  Historiographical metafiction
  Historiographic metafiction is a term originally coined by literary theorist Linda Hutcheon.According to Hutcheon, in "A Poetics of Postmodernism", works of historiographic metafiction are "those well-known and popular novels which are both intensely self-reflexive and yet paradoxically also lay...
  
  
• Bell Hooks
  Bell hooks
  Gloria Jean Watkins , better known by the pen name bell hooks, is an American author, feminist, and social activist. Her writing has focused on the interconnectivity of race, class, and gender and their ability to produce and perpetuate systems of oppression and domination...
  
  

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• Larry McCaffery
  Larry McCaffery
  Larry McCaffery is a literary critic, editor, and retired professor of English and Comparative Literature at San Diego State University. His work focuses on post-modern literature, science fiction, and contemporary fiction. He is best known for editing Storming the Reality Studio, an anthology...
  
  
• Brian McHale
  Brian McHale
  Brian G. McHale is an American literary theorist who writes on a range of fiction and poetics, mainly those relating to postmodernism. Raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, McHale is a Rhodes Scholar , D Phil from Merton College, Oxford, and B.A. from Brown University...
  
  
• Lev Manovich
  Lev Manovich
  Lev Manovich is an author of new media books and a professor of Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego, U.S. where he teaches new media art and theory. His best known book is The Language of New Media, which has been widely reviewed and has been translated into Italian, Korean, Polish,...
  
  
• Trinh T. Minh-ha
  Trinh T. Minh-ha
  Trinh T. Minh-ha is a filmmaker, writer, academic and composer. She is a world-renowned independent filmmaker and feminist, post-colonial theorist. She teaches courses that focuses on women's work as related to cultural politics, post-coloniality, contemporary critical theory and the arts...
  
  
• Stuart Moulthrop
  Stuart Moulthrop
  Stuart Moulthrop is an innovator of electronic literature and hypertext fiction, both as a theoretician and as a writer...
  
  
• Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  Gabriel García Márquez
  Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez is a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. García Márquez, affectionately known as "Gabo" throughout Latin America, is considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century. In 1982, he was awarded the Nobel...
  
  
• Toni Morrison
  Toni Morrison
  Toni Morrison is a Nobel Prize-winning American author, editor, and professor. Her novels are known for their epic themes, vivid dialogue, and richly detailed black characters...
  
  
• Malay Roy Choudhury
  Malay Roy Choudhury
  Malay Roy Choudhury is a Bengali poet and novelist who founded the "Hungryalist Movement" in the 1960s. His literary works have been reviewed by sixty critics in HAOWA 49, a quarterly magazine which devoted its January 2001 special issue to Roy Choudhury's life and works...
  
  

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• Ernesto Sabato
  Ernesto Sabato
  Ernesto Sabato is an Argentine writer. He was born in Rojas, a tiny town in the Province of Buenos Aires. Sabato began his studies at the Colegio Nacional de La Plata. He then read physics at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, where he earned a Ph.D. He then attended the Sorbonne in Paris and...
  
  
• Edward Said
  Edward Said
  Edward Wadie Saïd was a Palestinian American literary theorist, cultural critic, and an advocate for Palestinian rights. He was University Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and a founding figure in postcolonialism...
  
  
• Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
  Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
  Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick was an American theorist in the fields of gender studies, queer theory , and critical theory...
  
  
• Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
  Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
  Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is an Indian literary critic and theorist. She is best known for the article "Can the Subaltern Speak?", considered a founding text of postcolonialism, and for her translation of Jacques Derrida's Of Grammatology...
  
  
• Allucquere Rosanne Stone (Sandy Stone)
• Samir Roychoudhury
  Samir Roychoudhury
  Samir Roychoudhury সমীর রায়চৌধুরী , one of the founding fathers of the Hungry Generation 1961-1965 ,was born at Panihati, West Bengal, India in a family of artists, sculptors, photographers and musicians...
  
  

See also

• Friedrich Nietzsche
  Friedrich Nietzsche
  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a 19th- century German philosopher and classical philologist. He wrote critical texts on religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy and science, using a distinctive German-language style and displaying a fondness for metaphor, irony and...
  
  
• Ferdinand de Saussure
  Ferdinand de Saussure
  Ferdinand de Saussure was a Swiss linguist whose ideas laid a foundation for many significant developments in linguistics in the 20th century...
  
  
• Claude Lévi-Strauss
  Claude Lévi-Strauss
  Claude Lévi-Strauss is a French-Jewish anthropologist.-Biography:Claude Lévi-Strauss, born in Brussels, grew up in Paris, living in a street of the 16th arrondissement named after the artist Claude Lorrain, whose work he later admired and wrote about...
  
  

• List of postmodern authors
• Cultural studies
  Cultural studies
  Cultural studies is an academic field which combines political economy, communication, sociology, social theory, literary theory, media theory, film/video studies, cultural anthropology, philosophy, museum studies and art history/criticism to study cultural phenomena in various societies...
  
  
• Gender studies
  Gender studies
  Gender studies is a field of interdisciplinary study which analyzes the phenomenon of gender. Gender Studies is sometimes related to studies of class, race, ethnicity, sexuality and location....
  
  
• Second-wave feminism
  Second-wave feminism
  The "second-wave" of the Women's Movement, Feminist Movement, or the Women's Liberation Movement in the United States refers to a period of feminist activity which began during the early 1960s and lasted throughout the late 1970s. Whereas first-wave feminism focused mainly on overturning legal ...
  
  
• Third-wave feminism
  Third-wave feminism
  Third-wave feminism is a term identified with several diverse strains of feminist activity and study from 1990 to the present.The movement arose as a response to perceived possible failures and backlash against initiatives and movements created by second-wave feminism of c. 1960s through the...
  
  
• Poststructuralism
• Post-colonialism
• Postmodern literature
  Postmodern literature
  The term Postmodern literature is used to describe certain tendencies in post-World War II literature. It is both a continuation of the experimentation championed by writers of the modernist period and a reaction against Enlightenment ideas implicit in Modernist literature...
  
  
• Literary theory
  Literary theory
  Literary theory in a strict sense is the systematic study of the nature of literature and of the methods for analyzing literature. However, literary scholarship since the 19th century often includes—in addition to, or even instead of literary theory in the strict sense—considerations of...
  
  
• Hungryalism