ABSTRACT

The so-called ‘death of postmodernism’ can be compared to a child destined for ‘the many’ being declared dead by his/her birth parents, who have also appointed themselves coroners. With the verdict of ‘natural death’ given and recorded, the case is somehow closed. This celebratory collective writing experiment then becomes a moment where the willing and unwilling mourning relatives and ‘the many far beyond’ are convened to let go of ‘history’ and look to the future, even though ‘History’ could/may have wanted to be written and even named/labelled differently.