1. Ryan, Courtney & Manyvanh
PostModernism
Ryan, Courtney & Manyvanh

2. Significant Events Conclusion of WWII
Assassination of Martin Luther King (1968) & President Kennedy ( November 1962)
Civil rights movements of 1960s
Resignation of President Nixon in 1974
Feminist Movements

3. Beat Generation Timeline Freedom Movements Multicultural 1950 1960
1970
Emerging of Women’s Movements
Multicultural

4. Timeline Continued
1950 The beat generation was led by Ginsburg, Jack Kerouac, Lawrence Ferlinghetti
1960 Journalistic Essays were popular; Black Power, Women’s Liberties, & Gay Rights
1970 Kate Millet author of Sexual Politics attacked male writers for antifemale attitudes; Author female writers follow in suit: Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, & Joan Didion
Toni Morrison won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1993
Multicultural writers were expanding: Maxine Hong Kingston, Amy Ton, & Bharati Mukherjee and many more

5. Famous AUTHORS
Plato “And isn't it a bad thing to be deceived about the truth, and a good thing to know what the truth is?”
Aristotle “Finally, if nothing can be truly asserted, even the following claim would be false, the claim that there is no true assertion”.
Feyerabend “The only absolute truth is that there are no absolute”.

6. Characteristics
Postmodernism is involved with the present or very near past.
Postmodern writing is usually made by writers who like modern concepts.
Began right after World War II /1950’s.
Erasing boundaries between "low" and "high" culture
Lack of a grand narrative
Avoiding traditional closure of themes or situations

7. Topics Contemporary life Moral and Philosophical Relativism
Loss of faith in political, and moral authority, alienation.
Employing black humor (Parody, grotesque, absurdity, travesty, shock, satire, etc.)
Reality represented through language
Reaction to enlightenment ideas

8. Compare & Contrast
Postmodern writing has been influenced by multiple other eras and writings; Can be seen as a playful or parody writing. One example that influenced this form of writing is Laurence Sterne's 1759 novel The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy
Postmodernism is said, by some, to be the least articulate era of literature yet. This is due to most postmodern writing being influenced or based off of past eras and their writings.

9. Why would postmodernism be unique?
Variously defined, "postmodernism" can refer to a historical period that began in the 1950s, a style of literature, philosophy, art, and architecture.
This type of literature has moved civilians by its historical events of fighting against liberal rights, women’s natural liberties, and privileges of all colored people.