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CENTRAL ASIAN JOURNAL OF LITERATURE, 
PHILOSOPHY AND CULTURE
 
Volume: 03 Issue: 04 April 2022
 
A Brief on Past and Present a Tug of War in the Select Works of Kurt 
Vonnegut 
 
Dr S. Suman Rajest 
Vels Institute of Science, Technology & Advanced Studies, Tamil Nadu, India 
Jerusha Angelene Christabel G 
Research Scholar, Department of English, Sathiyabama Institute of Science and Technology, Tamil Nadu, 
India 
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Received 18
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 Feb 2022, Accepted 19
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 Mar 2022, Online 21
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 Apr 2022
Abstract:
The area of postmodern literary criticism, an arena very a good deal devoted to the concept of „decentring‟, is 
immediately ideally prepared to challenge the authority of any rival ideology and, way to this same dedication, 
continuously on the verge of collapsing below the burden of Hysteria stemming from its lack of authority. To 
devotees to the various theoretical practices that coexist underneath that umbrella of postmodernism, the above 
citation from Linda Hutcheon needs to offer some comfort. Here Hutcheon indicates that the influential and 
nevertheless
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vital theories of Foucault, Derrida, and Marx persist regardless of the struggle they have 
implicated in We that belief of centre they try to subvert, and they
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re so implicated deeply and knowingly. 
Begin with Hutcheon‟s idea of endurance in the face of conflict because it indicates immediately the 
experience of humility and feeling of boldness that we posit have to underlie all discourse on the postmodern. 
Individuals on this discourse, like writers, critics, and readers, have to humbly receive the instability and 
uncertainty of that means that accompanies the venture of decentring epistemological authority; but then again, 
they have to be bold enough to produce that means from such risky floor.