What is contemporary literature?

What is Contemporary Literature?

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• Contemporary literature is defined as literature written after World War II through the current day. While this is a vague definition, there is not a clear-cut explanation of this concept -- only interpretation by scholars and academics. While there is some disagreement, most agree that contemporary literature is writing completed after 1940.

What is the importance of Contemporary Literature?

What is the importance of Contemporary Literature?

• Literature always has a very significant role in our society. It is because of that it gives readers the knowledge of History and different cultures and it makes them liberate towards everything such as Love, War, Justice etc.

Contemporary Literature also has a very important role because it reflects a society’s social as well as political point of views. Writers, in general, look for what is trending in their time for their literary work. Because it helps them to illuminate the strength or weakness of society.

• Contemporary Literature also has a very important role because it reflects a society’s social as well as political point of views. Writers, in general, look for what is trending in their time for their literary work. Because it helps them to illuminate the strength or weakness of society.

• Literature or to be more specific, Contemporary Literature helps the readers to develop their rational thinking. So when we talk about Contemporary Literature, we can’t just simply take a couple of subjects or settings. Since society changes after some time, so do the substance and messages of this composition.

What are the Characteristics of Contemporary Literature?

Some of the main characteristics of Contemporary Literature are mentioned below :

• Stories in Contemporary Literature are very influencing and based on real issues which are presented through strong characters;
• Contemporary Literature reflects current political, social and individual issues;

• Contemporary Literature often tends towards reflecting an individual criticism, bafflement and dissatisfaction;
• Well-characterized, practical, exceptionally created characters in realistic, at times cruel conditions.

Top 5 Contemporary writers of English literature.

1. Isabel Allende

• Isabel Allende is a Chilean-American author who made her debut with “House of Spirits”. The vast majority of her works ordinarily contain components of magical realism and distinctive female characters. “City of Beasts” has been another huge business achievement.

2.Margaret Atwood

• One of the most well-known authors of Contemporary Literature is Margaret Atwood. She is a Canadian author, who is famous for her women’s activist and tragic political topics, and her prolific output of work spans multiple genres, including verse, short stories, and essays.
• Some of her well-known works are “The Blind Assassin”, “The Handmaid’s Tale”, “Oryx and Crake” etc.

3.Jonathan Earl Franzen

• Jonathan Earl Franzen is an American essayist and novelist. He was born on August 17,1959. He won the National Book Award for “The Corrections” and a frequent contributor of essays to The New Yorker. His work often addresses social analysis and family inconveniences.

4.Ian McEwan

• Ian McEwan is a British writer, who own literary awards with his first book “First Love, Last Rites”. He was born on 21 June 1948. McEwan started his career writing sparse, Gothic short stories. Some of his famous works are “The Cement Garden”, “The Comfort of Strangers”, “The Child in Time”, “The Innocent” and “Black Dogs”, ”Enduring Love”.

5.David Mitchell

• David Mitchell was born in Southport in Lancashire, England on 12 January 1969, and brought up in Malvern, Worcestershire. He is an English author and screenwriter of innovative storytelling. His first novel is “Ghostwritten”.

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