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You made it to the LAST “ism”!! Post-Modernism You made it to the LAST “ism”!!

When? Began after WWII/early 1950s continues through to the present day…or does it? Some argue it ended in the mid ’80s/’90s w/the personal computer—EVEN MORE say it ended with the integration of the internet creating globalization: meta-modernism plurality; “oscillation”; mercurial… Offshoot of Modernism, both a continuance and a rejection

Influences WAR No longer romanticized/idealized--harsh realities WWII & Atomic Warfare Hiroshima/Nagasaki Holocaust Nuclear war paranoia Bomb shelters Cold War Propaganda Vietnam War Death/violence in American living rooms Anti-war movements: counter-culture (hippies)

Influences Cont. Civil Rights Movement Women’s Lib. Movement Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) Growing Diversity Realities of cultural diversity, both positive & negative attributes

Even more influences! Rise of Technology Space Race Moon landing Rise of the “machine” = lack of humanity Fast paced world Creation of Science Fiction genre

Conventions/Beliefs Like Modernists before them, experimented in writing Varying points of view Drug, alcohol use Disregard for grammar conventions Changeability No right answers…

Conventions/Beliefs cont. Sharply divided politics Challenged authority, including organized religion, but far more sharply than their predecessors. Dystopian Literature Fahrenheit 451 Brave New World Handmaid’s Tale Hunger Games The Giver

Conventions Gallows Humor: Irony, playfulness, black humor Intertextuality Remember this one…??? Pastiche Temporal Distortion: non-linear, jumping in time (sometimes even using time travel to do so…) Magic Realism The fantastic/surreal among grounded reality

Authors Joseph Heller Catch 22 J.D. Salinger Nine Stories, Catcher in the Rye Kurt Vonnegut Breakfast of Champions, Slaughterhouse Five Robert Lowell Alan Ginsberg Howl Ken Kesey One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Thomas Pynchon Maya Angelou Alice Walker