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Abstract
The thesis aims to shed light on Jameson’s concept of postmodernism and to apply this concept on. a literary work. Therefore, the thesis ”was divided into three chapters, an introduction and a conclusion. The. first chapter was devoted to introducing Jameson’s concept of postmodernism. The second and third chapters were devoted to the application of Jameson’s concept of postmodernism on Toni Morrison’s novel; Beloved. Jameson as a post-Marxist critic sees that postmodernism is not completely different from the ideology of Marxism. According to Jameson, postmodernism is considered a cultural dominant of a specific mode of production. The most important achievement in Jameson’s theory of postmodernism is the relationship theit he creates between postmodernism and both culture and society. He believes that the economic basis plays an important role in the postmodern period which Jameson calls the period of multinational capitalism. In other words, Jameson borrows the ideology and the concepts of orthodox Marxism in his analysis of postmodernism. In this sense, his concept of postmodernism is completely different from most of his contemporaries. Jameson sees postmodernism as a cultural dominant rather than a domination of style. He believes that postmodernism deals with history in a very specific way in which history becomes historicism. For Jameson, historicism is different from real history in which the reader can find only allusion of this real history. He believes that postmodern writers can only express their own ideas and stereotypes of real history. In short, Jameson thinks that real history will remain out of reach.