We are going to look at writers of Post-Modernism (or Contemporary Literature( - those writers who wrote after WWII. We will look at beat poetry (Ginsberg, Corso, Diane di Prima, Amiri Baraka, Jack Kerouac), and writers of the 60s (James Baldwin, others) and some more recent writers (Toni Morrison).
POSTMODERNISM: Its main characteristics include anti-authoritarianism, or refusal to recognize the authority of any single style or definition of what art should be; and the collapsing of the distinction between high culture and mass or popular culture, and between art and everyday life. Fragmentation, dark humor and author self-referencing are characteristics of postmodernism as is the idea that there is no single truth.
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