Home›Open Questions›Has Postmodernism, as a literary period, ended?Open QuestionsHas Postmodernism, as a literary period, ended?Citation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextLiterature Atlas. "Has Postmodernism, as a literary period, ended?." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://literature.interactiveatlas.org/open-questions-index/has-postmodernism-ended-question.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextLiterature Atlas. (n.d.). Has Postmodernism, as a literary period, ended?. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://literature.interactiveatlas.org/open-questions-index/has-postmodernism-ended-questionCopy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{literatureatlas-has-postmodernism-as-a-literary-period-e, author = {Literature Atlas}, title = {Has Postmodernism, as a literary period, ended?}, year = {2026}, url = {https://literature.interactiveatlas.org/open-questions-index/has-postmodernism-ended-question}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXOpen QuestionCross-Tradition ConnectionsSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)Open QuestionPostmodernism carries a debated start date but essentially no agreed end date or settled successor period. Some critics and theorists have proposed a 'post-postmodern' or 'metamodern' shift beginning around the 1990s or after 2001, while others argue Postmodernism remains the operative frame for contemporary literature and no closing boundary can yet be drawn.What would resolve this No single text or event would settle this; it would require broad critical consensus on a successor period's own defining features, which current literary theory has not reached.OpenLiterary theory and periodizationEncyclopaedia BritannicaCross-Tradition ConnectionsQuestion OnPostmodernism, Movements Well-attested Source Encyclopaedia Britannicatier 1SourcesEncyclopaedia Britannicatier 1Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.View the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.View At A Past YearThe atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.Show This Year