Literary Education and Postmodern Culture in Hamid's Betrayal

This research study endeavors to analyze Omar Shahid Hamid’s novel Betrayal (2021) in the light of Lyotard’s theoretical theory of postmodernism and Linda Hutcheon’s theoretical concepts. Jean Francois Lyotard’s theory of postmodern metanarratives versus mininarratives was proposed and published in his The Postmodern Condition (1979). According to his theoretical concept of mininarratives, postmodernism poses significant challenges to conventional narratives of knowledge, reason, rationality, science, truth, nationality and objectivity. It also involves a complex set of discourses which resist a final closure or fixed definition. On the other hand, Hutcheon’s theory was proposed in A Poetics of Postmodernism: History, Theory, Fiction published in 1988. This study uses textual analysis as a research method in order to trace postmodern characteristics in words, sentences, dialogues, conversations and the text. The study ends with findings and recommendations for future research.