后现代主义或后现代派,这一词汇是在20世纪60年代正式进入美国社会生活的。它是一种广义上的文化思潮对西方社会的整合、政治上的不平等和社会理想提出了质疑,并从哲学上、文艺理论和小说创作上对传统的思想意识和表达方法进行反思。美国小说走进了后现代,变化非常明显,出现了新的创作模式,其中之一就是童话或神话 Postmodernism or postmodernism, the term formally entered American social life in the 1960s. It is a kind of cultural thoughts in broad sense that questions the integration of western society, political inequality and social ideal, and reflects on the traditional ideology and expression from the philosophy, literary theory and novel writing. American novel has entered the postmodern era, the change is very obvious, there has been a new mode of creation, one of which is the fairy tale or the myth