It is a type of music, literature or art characterized by specific form, content, and style.
Genre
Composed of literary works created within last decade by contemporary authors.
21st Century Literature
It deals with current themes and issues.
21st Century Literature
It reflects technological issue.
21st Century Literature
The genres of 21st Century Literature are:
Text tanaga
SMS fiction or Texttula
Noir fiction
Sudden or flash fiction
Creative nonfiction
Science fiction
Gay poetry
Chick literature
Eyewitness or trauma literature
Migrant literature
Doodle fiction
Manga
Blog
Spoken Word Poetry
Rap
Hyper poetry
Illustrated novel
Digi-fiction
Graphic novel
It is a poem using the mobile phone.
Text Tanaga
It is patterned with tanaga.
Text tanaga
It is composed of four rhyming lines with seven or eight syllables per line and so with its method, theme and subject.
Tanaga
It is a literary work originally written on cellular phone via text messaging.
SMS Fiction or Text tula
Usually 70-100 words long due to character limitations.
SMS fiction or Text tula
In this genre, so long as the brevity of 70-100 words is achieved, its fine.
SMS fiction or Text tula
Noir fiction is a genre of crime fiction and film marked by moral ambiguity, fatalism, and cynicism.
There is more than one interpretation.
Moral ambiguity
Deals with themes of fate and destiny.
Fatalism
Motivation by self-interest.
Cynicism
It is a narrative genre marked by brevity or word limit.
Sudden or Flash Fiction
It requires not more than fifty words or fewer than a thousand words.
Sudden or Flash Fiction
It is commonly associated with flash fiction, micro fiction, or pocket story.
Sudden or Flash Fiction
It is a rich mix of flavors, ideas, and techniques, some being newly invented and others as old as writing itself.
Creative nonfiction
Examples of creative nonfiction are essay, journal article, research paper, memoir, poem or reportage.
It can be personal or not.
Creative nonfiction
A genre of speculative fiction dealing with imaginative concepts (futuristic science and tech, space travel, time travel, faster than light travel, parallel universe and extra terrestrial life).
Science fiction
It explores potential consequences of scientific and other innovations.
Science fiction
A literature of ideas.
Science fiction
A type of poetry on gayness (Gay identity, culture, and experience).
Gay poetry
A genre in fiction that caters to issues being experienced by women and often addresses issues of modern womanhood.
Chick literature
Woman problems in humorous and lighthearted way.
Chick literature
Some examples of issues of modern womanhood are:
romantic relationships,
female friendships,
matters in workplace
Different texts about profound sense of loss and extreme fear on individual/community level embedded in the memory, experience, setting and language of the characters, persona or narrator of text.
Eyewitness or trauma literature
Associated with colonialism and its aftermath.
Migrant literature
It is a literary work of people who voluntarily or involuntarily leave homeland for another country.
Migrant literature
Literary presentation where author incorporates doodle writing and drawings, and handwritten graphics in place of traditional font.
Doodle fiction
In this literary genre, the drawings enhance story and often add humor.
Doodle fiction
Examples are Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Timmy Failure.
Doodle fiction
It is read right to left unlike Western left to right.