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Has postmodernism in literature ended, and if so when?

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Sources describe a new generation of writers and publications (David Foster Wallace, Zadie Smith, McSweeney's and others) as heralding either a new chapter of postmodernism or possibly a distinct post-postmodernism, without resolving which reading is correct, so no consensus end date exists.

What would resolve this A broadly adopted literary-critical consensus, or a landmark critical work, either marking postmodernism's close or confirming its continuation under a new name.
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A new generation of writers and publications such as McSweeney's, The Believer, and the fiction pages of The New Yorker herald either a new chapter of postmodernism or possibly post-postmodernism.
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