Contemporary Postmodern Representations in British Fictions with reference to Ian McEwan?s Black Dogs

V. Karthigadevi

Abstract: Britain has suffered the aftermath of the two world wars than any other nation in the world. As her colonies were affected economically at large, the people of Britain underwent a complete social unrest. Pushed into a sense of dismay and dullness, the postwar period in England was pitiable and pathetic, which reflected in the ways of the life of the people. Ian McEwan, a prolific writer of contemporary literary world, an active witness and sufferer of the war period, reflects on the consequences of the same in the lives of people through his novels, especially his earlier ones. Ian McEwan, along with his contemporaries continues in post modernistic trend and practice, ?the autonomy of art? through his novel, with appreciable technical excellence. Many of his novels The Innocent, Black Dogs, Atonement, The Child in Time touch upon the war period and the people living in that period, consequently.

Keywords: Ian McEwan, Black Dogs