Language, Form and the Question of Representation in Postmodern Fictions

It is construed that the postmodern problem of representation is reflected in the two sections of the fiction: form and language. Both form and language are the vehicles of representation and because of that, both form and language are questioned/subverted in the process of representation. The narrative problems in form and the referential problem in language take place in the fiction through multiple ways. Different authors utilize diverse approaches to the same representational problem. Postmodern authors from America such as Pynchon, John Barth, Paul Auster, and E L Doctorow; Latin American writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Saul Bellow; African American novelists such as Toni Morrison and Gloria Naylor; British Indian writer Salman Rushdie; Italian writers Italo Calvino, and Alberto Eco; and Canadian writers Robert Kroetsch, and Margaret Attwood contextualize the representational problems in terms of their local culture and issues.