New World Order of Postmodernism in the Plays of Harold Pinter

About the Book

The book reconnoiters the New World Order of Postmodernism in five plays— The Room (1957), The Birthday Party (1957), The Caretaker (1960), The Homecoming (1965) and Celebration (2000)— of Harold Pinter. With culturally structured, incomprehensibly manipulated, dual and fragmented characters, Harold Pinter analyses the ambiguities of political system. It is perhaps the ‘System’ that forcibly drags Stanley to a world of systems in The Birthday Party. The situation of Ruth in The Homecoming clearly indicates the inevitable grip of this System. The last play Celebration overtly ridicules the very political system we approve of wherein the strategy consultants and the corporate people define the organized mechanism of this SYSTEM! The internalization of power which the power structures of societies and politics possess, appears largely in his plays, providing postmodernism its duality. Pinter offers us a true picture of our postmodernist culture— an apocalyptic world at the edge of civilization.

About the Author

Being a DPhil in English Literature from the University of Allahabad, trained in Incorporating Gender Concerns in Public Policy from the Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi, India and certified in Global Diplomacy from the University of London & SOAS, University of London, Saumya Rajan is an author of Common Shadows, Guerilla Ignition, USA and has been widely published in the British Council Sampad UK, Estrade, Solstice Initiative, Ireland, The Poetic Lounge, USA etc. She works with the Government of India and specializes in 20th Century English literature and English print and MOOC material development.