Contemporary literature
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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Sidebar". Script error: No such module "For". Contemporary literature is literature which is generally set after World War II and coincident with contemporary history.Template:Fact Subgenres of contemporary literature include contemporary romance and others.
History
Literary movements are always contemporary to the writer discussing the work of their day. Here what have been recently "contemporary" are listed by decade. The list should not be assumed to be comprehensive.
1940s
1950s
- Absurdism
- Beat Generation
- Black Mountain poets
- Concrete poetry
- Confessional poetry
- The Movement
- Nouveau roman
- Oulipo
- San Francisco Renaissance
- Soviet nonconformism