In class, we've read four different books that each embodied post modernism in their own unique way: Ragtime blurring the line between history and fiction; Mumbo Jumbo through satire and deconstructing dominant narritives and conventions; Kindred on its framing of history's relationship to the present; and finally Libra which is built around a conspiracy, something that is inherently postmodernist. Each novel also features or is related to a postmodernist movement, such as the 1619 project or the flurry of conspiracies that followed the JFK assasination. This is one of the things that make Libra so interesting -- how it's based on and contributes to a conspiracy. The way that the JFK assasination led to so much of a country not only doubting what they could clearly see on video, but taking this doubt into their own hands and questioning the origin of the historical narrative that it writes is so naturally postmodernist. Don DeLillo takes what is alre...