21st century literature

• Context is the interrelated conditions in which something exists or occurs.
• Text is the words written in order to create literature
• Context + Text = Literary work
• Biographical is formed by beliefs, education, culture, and experiences of the author.
• Historical refers to the information given about a certain period of time, events that have occurred within that period, and the situation of the people at that point of time
• Geographic context is a way of looking at a literature from a perspective of the geography of events that happened upon writing the work
• Political context defines the political scenario directly or indirectly influencing the production of literature.
• Philosophical addresses age-old questions of religion, ethics, and morality
• Sociological is the type of environment and society pertaining to humanity as a factor in which literature takes place.
• Psychological includes the mental and emotional factors in creating the literature.
• New literary works developed in the recent decade are referred to as 21st century literature
• Comic book is an illustration based extract from a longer serialized tale.
• Digi-fiction or Triple Media Literature is where readers must navigate, read, watch in all three modes in order to understand the complete tale
• Graphic novels are a form of comic books that are printed on paper and are usually longer than a single issue.
• Manga is a japanese term for comic books
• Doodle fiction, where the writer uses doodle writing and drawings as well as handwritten images instead of regular type face
• Text-talk novels are blogs, story emails, e-books that are told almost completely in dialogue simulating social networking relationships.
• Chick literature confronts difficulties of modern women in a funny and cheerful manner. Usually has a female heroine whose femininity is extensively thermalized in the storyline. Only targets women as the audience.
• Flash fiction is defined as a very short story, can be as short as a few words
• Six-word flash fiction is a six-word story that allows a reader to consume an entire narrative in just a moment’s time
• Science fiction deals with innovative themes such as futuristic science and technology, space travel, time travel, faster-than-light travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life.
• Creative non-fiction is a type of writing that employs literary methods and styles that generate factually correct information.
• Hyper poetry is a type of poetry that uses links and hypertext maekup
• Spoken poetry is a poetic performance that is word based. It is an oral art that focuses on the aesthetics of word play such as intonation and voice inflection