STUDENT NAME: ANGHELINA LÓPEZ
PROFESSOR: ISMAEL MARTÍNEZ
ID#: 2-741-1268
05/05TH/2020
It’s a period of literature wich started from around 1950, after world war 2 (late 20 th century
to early 21st century). It reflects contemporary life and culture wich is still changing. There
are several events in history and developments in literature:
Radio started to become popular.
1920
1940
• A big emigration to USA.
• Woman who worked during the war got back to their
households. The 80% of them wanted to keep working.
• After working, woman saw their own capacity and this
1945
created feminism.
• Contemporary period started.
• Television became more popular and people
from everywhere could see the news from all
over the world.
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Illegal immigration started
Refugees weren’t seen as victims anymore.
Anger, hate and racism started.
Confessional poetry.
1950
• Martin Luther King hold his famous speech “I
have a dream”; it had a big influence in the world.
• Love not hate!
1963
1965
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Facebook was released and everyone shared opinions and
ideas.
Technology open easy doors for people to communicate
with others.
Sexton’s poems staring showing up.
People with low status and minorities started to have
voice and potential of making changes.
2004
• Voting rights acts leading to less racism and
segregation
• The movement of third wave of feminism
focus on individual identity.
• Literature is more open than before.
• Clear develop of the literature style.
• Talking about yourself became acceptable in
literature.
• People became more open minded, so authors started
to write about sex, love and feminism.
• The breaking up of universalism breaking the idea
of living apart resulted a new free set of minds.
NOW
Before the contemporary period, what the readers would think was told by the author, but you can think of
many different interpretations and everything is actually not told by the section but you have a power.