Warm-up –Answer these Essential Questions 1.Explain the style of the Post- Modernist time period in literature. 2.Name the genres of the Post- Modernists. 3.What was happening in the U.S. during this period? (think historical events) 4.Name two works from this period. 5.Name two authors from this period.
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Warm-up –Answer these Essential Questions
1.Explain the style of the Post- Modernist time period in literature.
2.Name the genres of the Post- Modernists.
3.What was happening in the U.S. during this period? (think historical events)
4.Name two works from this period.5.Name two authors from this
period.
Time Periods of LiteratureLesson 42
Post- Modernism1946-Present
Georgia Performance Standard
• ELAALRL3: The student deepens understanding of literary works by relating them to their contemporary context or historical background, as well as to works from other time periods.
b. The student relates a literary work to the characteristics of the literary time period or historical setting: – v. Postmodernism
Genre & Style of the Postmodernism Period
mixing of fantasy with nonfiction;
blurs lines of reality for reader
no heroes –
later,
antiheroes
concern with individual in isolation
narratives,
essays,
poems, short
stories, novels
usually humorless
social is
sues
as write
rs
align with
feminist &
ethnic groupsmetafiction
present tense
magic realism
Historical Context of Modernism• Post World War II (WWII) prosperity• Dawn of the nuclear age & Cold War with
Soviet Union• Korean War and Vietnam War• Civil Rights protests/riots/gains• Women’s Liberation Movement• Watergate scandal• Explosive suburban growth • Media culture interprets values• People beginning a new century and a
new millennium
Notable Writers
• John Updike (b.1932)• Truman Capote• Robert Lowell (1917-1977)• Theodore Roethke (1908-1963)• Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989)• Arthur Miller – Playwright (The
Crucible)• Others
Rainbow of Writers• African American – Rita Dove (Poet),
Toni Morrison, Alice Walker• Native American – N. Scot Momaday
(Essayist), Joy Harjo,• Asian American – Maxine Hong
Kingston (Chinese), Naoomi Shibab (Arab American)
• Latino – Martin Espada (lawyer)
These and others prove that America’s strength lies in its diversity.
Truman Capote (1924-1984)
•Wrote short stories, novels, and screenplays•Novel: In Cold Blood (fictional novel based on a real event•Novella: Breakfast at Tiffany’s
• Wrote Roots and won Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award for it
• There is some controversy that parts of Roots are inaccurate.
Toni Morrison
Nobel Prize for Literature 1993
Click on picture to start video segment (5:11) Toni Morrison on the Purpose of African American Literature
Carson McCullers• Born and raised
in Columbus, Georgia
• Married and moved at 17
• Hard life because of physical problems that started in her 30’s
Rachel Carson• wrote the book,
Silent Spring, which spurred
the environmental
protection movement
Georgia Performance Standard
• ELAALRL3: The student deepens understanding of literary works by relating them to their contemporary context or historical background, as well as to works from other time periods.
b. The student relates a literary work to the characteristics of the literary time period or historical setting: – v. Postmodernism
Warm-up –Answer these Essential Questions
1.Explain the style of the Post-Modernist time period in literature.
2.Name the genres of the Post-Modernists.
3.What was happening in the U.S. during this period?
4.Name two works from this period.5.Name two authors from this
period.
1. Explain the style of the Post- Modernist time period in literature.
•Mixing of fantasy with nonfiction; blurs lines of reality for reader•Present tense•No heroes, then later, antiheroes•Social issues as writers align with feminist & ethnic groups•Usually humorless•Concern with individual in isolation•Magic realism
2. Name the genres of the Postmodernists.
narratives essays poems short
stories novels
3. What was happening in the U.S. during this period?
• Post World War II (WWII) prosperity• Dawn of the nuclear age & Cold War
with Soviet Union• Korean War and Vietnam War• Civil Rights protests/riots/gains• Women’s Liberation Movement• Watergate scandal• Explosive suburban growth• media culture interprets values• People beginning a new century and a
new millennium
4. Name some works from this period.
Possibly…• In Cold Blood• Silent Spring• The Crucible• The Color Purple• Garbage• Roots• The Autobiography of Malcolm X• Catcher in the Rye• Breakfast at Tiffany’s
5. Name some authors from this period.
• Possible answers: Carson McCullers, John Updike, Flannery O’Connor, Truman Capote, Scott Momaday, Barry Lopez, Theodore Roethke, Elizabeth Bishop, A.R. Ammons, Rita Dove, Maxine Hong Kingston, Martin Espada, J.D. Sallinger, Alex Haley, Rachel Carson, Flannery O’Connor, Robert Lowell, Robert Penn Warren, Arthur Miller, Toni Morrison, etc.
We have studied all of these time periods below. Which one is most appealing to you and why? Write a paragraph with a topic
sentence supporting details, and concluding sentence.