【正确答案】正确答案：Postmodernism is a disputed term that has occupied much recent debate about contemporary culture since the early 1980s. As applied to literature and other arts, it means both a continuation of the experimentation championed by writers of the modernist period (relying heavily, for example, on fragmentation, paradox, questionable narrators, etc.) and a reaction against Enlightenment ideas implicit in Modernism. The hallmark of postmodern literature, and of postmodern art in general, is the erosion of the boundaries between "high" elite, or serious art and "low" popular art, or entertainment. Decidedly serious literary works now make use of genres long thought to belong only to popular work. A related phenomenon is the development of numerous hybrid genres that erode the distinctions, for instance, between literature and journalism, literature and (auto) biography, and literature and history. Kurt Vonnegut, Thomas Pynchon, John Barth and Kingston Hong, to name a few, are generally considered as writers of the kind.

【答案解析】解析：本题考查后现代主义(Postmodernism)的基本特征，后现代主义的概念比较宽泛，回答起来有一定的困难。后现代主义是一个从理论上难以精准下定论的一种概念，因为后现代主义理论家，均反对以各种约定成俗的形式，来界定或者规范其主义。而现在成了：一切都是凌乱的，去中心化。后现代主义文学的基本特征也体现出了多样性、去中心化的特点。冯内古特、品钦、巴思以及汤婷婷均是这一流派的代表。