Post-Modernist and Cosmopolitan aspects in Haruki Murakami's After Dark

Abstract

The connection of Postmodernism and Cosmopolitanism is deeply interlocked by the visible traces of Globalisation in literature. With globalisation following immediately after the peak of Postmodernism; the contemporary mood of literature frequently switched between the typical postmodernist denial of classifications and the constant cosmopolitan tendencies of identical consumerism all over the world. As a consequence, such literature was produced which showcased the dynamic contemporary dispositions of a consumerist society that individualistically engages itself in postmodernist abstractions and cosmopolitan self-absorption.