Post-Modernism, Contemporary American Literature Movement, from WW2 to Today

Grab your students’ attention as you launch your study of post-modern American literature with this 39-slide presentation. Covering the period of 1950 (the aftermath of the U.S. bombing of Hiroshima at the end of WWII) through today’s best-selling contemporary voices, this 30-minute lecture will prep your students to dig deeper into any literary works from this era that you want to use in class. Great for giving students a general idea of the important issues and philosophies that guided the literary canon from the mid-20th century to today.

This download includes online/offline Prezi, PDF, and Google Slides versions of the slide deck.

To view the companion materials for the other movements in the American literary canon, just click on the following:

Colonialism

Romanticism

Realism

Modernism

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