LIT FINALS

• Characteristics of 21st Century Literature

  • Written by contemporary authors within the last decade
  • Deals with current issues and themes
  • Reflects technological culture
  • Literature of emerging genres
  • Often breaks traditional writing
• Start of the 21st Century literature


  January 1, 2001
• Speculative Fiction


  A science fiction, fantasy, horror, superhero, dystopian, utopian, etc.
• Dystopian Fiction


  A genre of literature that focuses on stories that envision the world in catastrophic, decline and some common themes of these stories include tyranny, anarchy, oppression etc.
• Graphic Novel


  Formally introduced as comics genre by American cartoonist Will Eisner in 1964
• Fan Fiction


  A work of fiction that allows avid readers to write an alternative version of an existing story
• Wattpad


  World’s most-loved storytelling platform; connects a global community of 97 million readers and writer through the power of story
• Young Adult Literature


  Books written for an audience of 12–20-year-old
• Chick Lit


  Fiction genre that tackles the issues of modern womanhood
• Mexican literary writings are classified among the literatures of American Indian civilizations conquered by Spaniards
• Asian literature


  • Diverse in styles and themes
  • As it progressed over time, common ideas have been identified between the texts from the various regions of the Asian continent
  • The most similar trait of all Asian texts is their religiosity and spirituality
• Chinese literature is some of the most imaginative and interesting in the world
• Wen Chang


  God of literature
• Confucianism


  A Western term that has no counterpart in Chinese, is a worldview, a social ethic, a political ideology, a scholarly tradition, and a way of life
• Li Po


  His poetry is known for its clear imagery and conversational tone
• Du Fu


  His poems are remarkable for their range of moods as well as contents
• Po Chu-I


  Was a Chinese poet best known for his ballads and satirical poems
• Sinophone literature


  Literature written in Chinese by Chinese-speaking writers
• Haiku


  one of the minimalist forms of traditional Japanese poetry which often makes evocative allusions and comparisons about nature and its seasons
• Tale of Genji


  by Murasaki Shikibu
• Akira Toriyama


  Create the popular Dragon Ball series
• Hanja


  an alphabet created in the 15th century by King Sejong the Great, and considered the most scientific writing system in the world
• Hangul


  Modern Korean alphabet/script
• Hyangga


  poems of varying length of four, eight, and ten

  lines, commonly composed by Buddhist monks
• Koryo Kayo


  songs categorized as either short form or extended form, which do not adhere to any strict measure or rhyme
• Sanskrit


  the primary sacred language of Hinduism
• Ramakien


  Ittells the story of a king named Phra Ram, his beautiful wife, Sida, and his enemy, the demon king Tosakanth of Lanka. When Sida was kidnapped by Tosakanth, Phra Ram gathers an army of monkeys to search for and rescue her. The monkey army is led by a white monkey named General Hanuman.
• Bible


  most important work of Hebrews
• Mwindoc epic


  oral tale from Congo and Sundiata, an epic identified with Malinka, a West African ethnic group, are examples of oral historical epics that depict the ancient African civilization
• Wole Soyinka


  first African to win a Noble Prize in Literature; known for African theatre
• Chinua Achebe (Nigeria)


  his novel ‘Things Fall Apart‘ is one of the most widely read and influential African novels ever written
• Flora Nwapa


  first woman from Sub-Saharan Africa to have a novel published