Postmodern Perspective in the Novel Summer Love

Abstract

The present study entitled “Postmodern Perspective in the Novel Summer Love” was conducted to identify and analyze the novel ‘Summer Love’ from postmodern perspective in terms of globalization, fragmentation of social life, pluralism in modern life, fragmented culture and structures, transformation of the self, impacts of ICT on social life. The data were collected from the novel Summer Love using non-random purposive sampling procedure. The collected data were analyzed using document analysis model under qualitative research design. From the analysis of the novel, it was found that the characters of novel have started to follow Western culture because of globalization. This world has changed into a global village due to the development of technology e.g. internet, air travel. Social networking sites are the ways to stay connected with the people across the world as expressed in the novel. People of present world are indebted to social media as the characters of the novel were also tremendously engaged in social media. In the novel, characters did not want to follow rigid ideologies due to the influence they had on growing global culture. Similarly, traditional label and categories has been changed. In the same way, ICT is taken as very important part of postmodern life that has improved the quality of social life. Further, mobile phone is taken as one of the important means which helped to be connected with the friends and relatives in the fiction. Finally, postmodern society has become consumer society in the name of identity formation as represented in the novel. The present study consists of five chapters. First chapter consists of background of the study, statement of the problem, research questions, significance of the study, delimitations of the study and operational definitions of the key terms. The second chapter comprises review of introduction to the novel Summer Love, postmodernism, development of the postmodernism, postmodern literary criticism and features of postmodern literature, review of related empirical literature, implication of the reviewed literature and conceptual framework of the study. Chapter three consists of design and method of the study, population sample and sampling strategy, data collection tools and techniques, data collection procedure and data analysis and interpretation procedures. Chapter four analyzed and interpreted data descriptively. The fifth chapter consists of findings, conclusion and recommendation. Finally, the study contains references and appendix.