Embracing post-modernism's limitations for understanding literature (from A&L Daily)

Some propositions:

Commonalities and 'universal appeal' exist because we are created by one God.

But postmodernism seems to suggest that somehow, each community is its own creation, with all that implies. This is not a trustworthy view, it seems to me. Yet is still a helpful corrective to the arrogant intellectual colonialism of modernism, which seems to suggest that 'truth' and 'understanding' may be reduced to the cultural expressions of a single dominant community. This, too, is vanity - an untrustworthy view.

Truth and understanding lies in healthy relationship, community, form-of-life. And it cannot be reduced to propositions, nor to any single expression of whatever form, though of course propositions (as understood by those who speak them) may partially give expression to it.

Thus, what I have written is not 'the truth', though it may be one way to express it, using the tool of language.