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Literary period
T. Coraghessan Boyle’s short story “She’s the Bomb” was first published in 2017 and the work shows many postmodern traits. The text has a social setting focused on contemporary problems in American society, such as school shootings and terrorist attacks. It has political, social, and philosophical nuances, as it raises questions about the condition of young people. The context of the story is contemporary and it reflects a world focused on technology.
However, the work also contains other postmodernist aspects, including visual tricks like the change in text formats between the story and the text messages, and the in-story references to the story being fictional (eg. ll. 8-9). The story also makes use of intertextuality, as it refers to N...