HISTORICAL MEMORY IN POSTMODERN LITERATURE

Postmodern literature is one of the important trends that emerged in the second half of the 20th century and formed new means of expression and aesthetic principles in modern culture and literature. This trend was born in an environment of revolutionary change and renewal in various fields, and fundamentally denies the perfect and holistic worldviews of modernism, as well as the orderly and systematic visions of reality. It is precisely this power of denial that has ensured that postmodern literature pays special attention to the issue of historical memory. Because postmodern literature approaches history and memory as a complex, multi-layered, contradictory phenomenon between times, a field in which concepts are reshaped and contested in political and cultural contexts. Postmodern literature often presents history and memory as unreliable, fragmentary, devoid of solid foundations and unstable phenomena.