Postmodernity or postmodernism can be defined as a cultural condition of “living in an increasingly technologically orientated society, with lower levels of trust in authority and ‘truth' than previously, where the meaning of things is unstable and open to interpretation" (Lewis, 200, p. 270). Postmodernism, as it relates to literature, refers to “texts that can be seen to represent such instability and unreliability" (Lewis, 2001). It is largely a reaction to the assumed certainty of scientific, or objective, efforts to explain reality. In essence, it stems from a recognition that reality is not simply mirrored in human understanding of it, but rather, is constructed as the mind tries to understand its own particular and personal reality
The study reviews some key works of the late Egyptian literary writer Ahmed Khalid Tawfik, to analyze aspects of post-modern children's literature. Tawfik used to experiment with new, some times confusing perspectives of the teen novels written in Arabic. The study identifies certain common aspects among Tawfik's postmodernist works such as indeterminacy, fragmentation, decanonization, irony, hybridization, performance, and participation. Through his well-received teen stories, Tawfik manifested different postmodernist characteristics including less stability and fewer conventions, open texts, intertextuality, Disorientation, multivocality, and less authorial power and liberation of reader.