Summaries, Conclusions and Research Findings

This chapter gives chapter summaries, conclusions and research findings on the topic, ‘Postmodern Reading of Contemporary East African Fiction: The Modernist Dream and the Demise of Culture.’ I discuss the findings of the adverse effects of modernism on East African prose fiction and recommend areas for future tasks. The rise of modernist thought in the period of Enlightenment was hailed as an opportunity for humankind to effectively and successfully control its destiny. As much as humanity has successfully executed individual liberties and scientific inventions, modernist thinking has had adverse effects on individuals and culture. Postmodernist scholars such as Heidegger, Friedrich Nietzsche and Jacques Derrida have interrogated modernist tenets. This book therefore extends the postmodernist interrogation of modernist maxims with evidence from East African prose fiction and drama.