The postmodernist movement started after World War II in which high and low culture are questionable from the point of view of society and art. The postmodernist movement in literature creates a new set of ideals for fiction, such as metafiction, fable representation in novels, pastiche, irony, and satire. Fredric Jameson discusses the movement and its theory in his essay "Postmodernism and Consumer Society." It challenges postmodernism in society because it creates the new societal norm of popular culture. On the other hand, Jean Baudrillard analyzes the simulacra of postmodernism in “The precession of simulacra”. Baudrillard speaks of “truth” and “reality” also as a questionable representation for the reader. Yet both critics agree that postmodernist literature is without depth. Spiegelman's Maus series is a metafiction that tells the story of Art Spiegelman's journey to writing this novel through the present-day account of Vladek Spiegelman's life during the Holocaust. However, as a postmodernist text, Jameson and Baudrillard call it a depthless and "unreal" representation. Nevertheless, the depiction of Maus has the characteristics of a postmodernist text, but asserts that it is not without depth due to the representation of an authoritative vision, a historical continuum, and that the text does not not present as a mode of pop culture. Postmodern literature contains an authoritative point of view because it expresses the "real" and the "unreal". The authoritative point of view is hidden in the representation of words and the form of the text. Jean Baudrillard talks about the masking of the gaze in his essay “Postmodernism and Consumer Society” when he says: “This, feigning or dissembling leaves the principle of reality in the middle of the paper……hat is lost” (Friedman 240 ). Works cited Baudrillard, Jean. “The precession of the simulacra”. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. 2001. Reprint. New York: Norton & Company, 2010. 1556-1566. Print.Friedman, Ellen G. "Where is the missing content? (Post)modernism, gender and the canon." PMLA 108.2 (1993): 240-252. JSTOR. Internet. March 20, 2011. Jameson, Fredric. “Postmodernism and consumer society”. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. 2001. Reprint. New York: Norton & Company, 2010. 1846-1860. Print.McGlothlin, Erin. “There is no time like the present: narrative and time in Art Spiegelman’s “Maus”.” Story 11.2 (2003): 177-198. JSTOR. Internet. March 20, 2011. Spiegelman, Art. Maus: a survivor's story. New York: Pantheon Books, 1986. Print. Spiegelman, Art. Maus II: A Survivor's Story: And this is where my troubles began. New York: Pantheon Books, 1991. Print.