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Twentieth Century Literature

 

            The Twentieth Century Module introduced us to a myriad of writing and expressive styles. The writings modeled the ever changing times of the last century as mankind maneuvered through the Industrial Revolution, various wars (including two world wars), and major advancements in technology. Many personal and lifestyle issues also started to take effect such as the Civil Rights movement, divorces, and influx of emigrants into the United States. Cultures adapted and views changed but all these changes did not come easy and was expressed in many of the written works produced during the century.
             Through out the wars that were fought many young lives were lost and over time the views of those fighting and those at home changed as much as they were shaped by the government that sent them to battle. Throughout the module we experience the different emotions and sentiments of the writers" views on the wars, loss of life, and faith in "the cause" as in Wilfred Owens poetry that screams the pain and frustration the soldiers felt during war. Also we experience how family life is affected by war when we are forced to relocate ourselves from our traditions and cultures and move to a new land as Brave Orchid did in "The Woman Warrior". We also read poetry by Langston Hughes who brings another view to the spectrum, one of conquering oppression that I dare say helped fuel the many African Americans into the Civil Rights movements that took place a few decades after his initial writings.
             Since it was a novel that we read, making it the biggest piece of reading in the module, Maxine Hong Kingston's "The Warrior Woman" was a piece that consumed a great deal of my attention during the length of the semester. Being Latin American, I related to the experiences she wrote about and to their "story talking" and a vivid picture of my grandmother came to mind. Much like Brave Orchid in the story, my grandmother also left her country, customs, and most (if not all) of her family behind when she left Cuba.


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1. English Literature in the Twentieth century

The twentieth century really begins before the end of the nineteenth century. ... The twentieth century has seen more and more of this broadening of artistic trends, extending into the other cultural forms of radio, television, cinema and popular music. ... A tension in writing between the popular and the esoteric, and the popular and specialized, the commercial and the avant-garde, became a feature of twentieth-century literature. ... Before 1914, English literature and ideas were in many ways still harking back to the nineteenth century: after 1918, Modern begins to define the twentieth cent...

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3. Literary Theory and Teaching Literature

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