Read the definition of postmodernism which follows to answer the second question: The term postmodernism is often applied to the literature and art after World War II, when the effects on Western morale of the first war were greatly exacerbated by the experience of Nazi totalitarianism and mass extermination, the threat of total destruction by the atomic bomb, the progressive devastation of the natural environment, and the ominous fact of overpopulation. Many of the works of postmodernism so blend literary genres, cultural and stylistic levels, the serious and the playful, that they resist classification according to traditional rubrics. An undertaking in some postmodernist works is to subvert the foundations of our accepted modes of thought and experience so as to reveal the meaninglessness of existence and
the underlying "abyss," or "void," or "nothingness" on which any supposed security is conceived to be precariously suspended. In what ways is Greene's "The Destructors” a postmodern work?"