ISSUES AND CHALLENGES IN CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE

Contemporary Literature
What is Contemporary literature?
Most concur that the period of contemporary composing started during the 1940s. A couple of researchers
guarantee this period began toward the end of World War II, and this is the place where the time's blending with
postmodern writing comes in. The postmodern time started after WWII, during the 1940s, and endured through
the 1960s. The contemporary period reaches out to the current day. Contemporary composed works will in
general be affected by the prosperous way of life that followed WWII, yet this literary class is established in the
devastation that war brought to the world. Another reality bloomed in the post-war mind, and it incorporated
individual negativity, bafflement, and dissatisfaction that is basic to this literary period. The horrors of the war,
including bombs, ground wars, genocide, and corruption, are the pathways to this type of literature. It is from
these real-life themes that they find the beginning of a new period of writing. Literature is indeed one of the
approaches to comprehend and battle the troublesome social issues that shape our reality. A portion of the social
issues that writing fundamentally wrestles is bias or prejudice, particularly in women, ethnicity, and race.

Social Issues
Social issues in contemporary literature
 Women in Literature
 Ethnic in Literature
 Racism in Literature

Women in Literature
Female writers have come to the forefront and provided today's readers with a vast array of ethnic and cultural
perspectives. The unique voice of female minorities is a common theme in many coming of age novels that allows
each writer to establish a separate identity for their characters and themselves. Women in modern literature often
include strong independent females juxtaposed by oppressed women to provide examples for young female
readers and to critique the shortcomings of our society. Later, authors such as Virginia Woolf and Simone de
Beauvoir wrote about women's inability to assert their personal power in their essays A Room of One's Own and
The Second Sex , respectively. For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf by
Ntozake Shange tells the stories of seven women who have suffered oppression in a racist and sexist society.

Ethnic in Literature
Numerous contemporary creators, like Alice Walker and Toni Morrison, have investigated the double persecution
by identity and sex of Black ladies in the United States. The improvement of these subjects returns to Sojourner
Truth's 1851 discourse, "Ai not I a Woman," and furthermore Zora Neale Hurston's epic, Their Eyes Were Watching
God, which showed up in 1937. Hurston's novel, with its solid female hero, is an immediate antecedent to Walker
and Morrison's books for example, separately, The Color Purple and Beloved Ethnic literature, the definition says,
is literature like any other, except that it contains ethnic references. When readers who are designated "na ve"
since they are relatively less conscious of the functions of literary forms, encounter ethnic literature, they respond
to the verisimilitude of the narration so completely they take the literature as an equivalence for life. Plot and
devices of narration evaporate from the na ve readers' awareness and Native Son or Black Boy become histories of
Black life similar to From Slavery to Freedom in their presumed references to objective reality.
Racism in Literature
The following essay discusses the element of racism as a theme in Margaret Laurence's short story "The Loons,"
Langston Hughes' poem, I Too, Sing America, and W.E. B Du Bois' book, "The Souls of Black Folk"."The Loons" is a
short story that was done by Margaret Laurence together with other stories in the sequence "A bird in the House"
and was published in 1970. Racism, a disease of the ignorant, is a horrific part of society, and has reared its ugly
head throughout history, and is continuing to do the same today. Racism comes in many shapes and forms,
directed towards a variety of cultures. Oftentimes, there are people who see racism and are inspired to write
about it, with the goal in mind to make a difference and change society's belief.

CHALLENGES TO CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE

 Literature is language-based and national; contemporary society is globalizing and polyglot.

 Vernacular means of everyday communication "” cellphones, social networks, streaming video "” are
moving into areas where printed text cannot follow.
 Intellectual property systems failing.
 Means of book promotion, distribution and retail destabilized.
 Ink-on-paper manufacturing is an outmoded, toxic industry with steeply rising costs.
 Core demographic for printed media is aging faster than the general population. Failure of print and
newspapers is disenfranching young apprentice writers.
 Media conglomerates have poor business model; economically rationalized "culture industry" is actively
hostile to vital aspects of humane culture.
 Long tail Balkanizes audiences, disrupts means of canon-building and fragments literary reputation.
 Digital public-domain transforms traditional literary heritage into a huge, cost-free, portable, searchable
database, radically transforming the reader's relationship to belle-lettres.
 Barriers to publication entry have crashed, enabling huge torrent of subliterary and/or nonliterary textual
expression.

 Algorithms and social media replacing work of editors and publishing houses; network socially-generated
texts replacing individually-authored texts.
 "Convergence culture" obliterating former distinctions between media; books becoming one minor aspect
of huge tweet/ blog/ comics/ games / soundtrack/ television / cinema / ancillary-merchandise pro-fan
franchises.
 Unstable computer and cellphone interfaces becoming world's primary means of cultural access.
Compositor systems remake media in their own hybrid creole image.
 Scholars steeped within the disciplines becoming cross-linked jack-of-all-trades virtual intelligentsia.
 Academic education system suffering severe bubble-inflation.
 Polarizing civil cold war is harmful to intellectual honesty.
 The Gothic fate of poor slain Poetry is the specter at this dwindling feast.
 ISSUES AND CHALLENGES IN CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE

Contemporary Literature
What is Contemporary literature?
 Most concur that the period of contemporary composing started during the 1940s during World War II
and endured through the 1960s.
 Contemporary composed works will in general be affected by the prosperous way of life that followed
WWII.
 This literary class is established in the devastation that war brought to the world.
 Another reality bloomed in the post-war mind, and it incorporated individual negativity, bafflement, and
dissatisfaction that is basic to this literary period. The horrors of the war, including bombs, ground wars,
genocide, and corruption, are the pathways to this type of literature.
 It is from these real-life themes that find the beginning of a new period of writing.
 A portion of the social issues that writing fundamentally wrestles is bias or prejudice, particularly in
women, ethnicity, and race.

Social Issues
Social issues in contemporary literature
 Women in Literature
 Ethnic in Literature
 Racism in Literature

Women in Literature
 The unique voice of female minorities is a common theme in many coming of age novels that allows each
writer to establish a separate identity for their characters and themselves.
 Women in modern literature often include strong independent females juxtaposed by oppressed women
to provide examples for young female readers and to critique the shortcomings of our society.
 Later, authors such as Virginia Woolf and Simone de Beauvoir wrote about women's inability to assert
their personal power in their essays A Room of One's Own and The Second Sex, respectively.
 For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf by Ntozake Shange tells the
stories of seven women who have suffered oppression in a racist and sexist society.

Ethnic in Literature
 Numerous contemporary creators, like Alice Walker and Toni Morrison, have investigated the double
persecution by identity and sex of Black ladies in the United States. The improvement of these subjects
returns to Sojourner Truth's 1851 discourse, "Ai not I a Woman," and furthermore Zora Neale Hurston's
epic, Their Eyes Were Watching God, which showed up in 1937. Hurston's novel, with its solid female
hero, is an immediate antecedent to Walker and Morrison's books for example, separately, The Color
Purple and Beloved Ethnic literature, the definition says, is literature like any other, except that it contains
ethnic references.
 When readers who are designated "na ve" since they are relatively less conscious of the functions of
literary forms, encounter ethnic literature, they respond to the verisimilitude of the narration so
completely they take the literature as an equivalence for life.
  Plot and devices of narration evaporate from the na ve readers' awareness and Native Son or Black Boy
become histories of Black life similar to From Slavery to Freedom in their presumed references to
objective reality.

Racism in Literature
 The following essay discusses the element of racism as a theme in Margaret Laurence's short story "The
Loons," Langston Hughes' poem, I Too, Sing America, and W.E. B Du Bois' book, "The Souls of Black
Folk"."The Loons" is a short story that was done by Margaret Laurence together with other stories in the
sequence "A bird in the House" and was published in 1970.
 Racism, a disease of the ignorant, is a horrific part of society, and has reared its ugly head throughout
history, and is continuing to do the same today.
 Racism comes in many shapes and forms, directed towards a variety of cultures. Oftentimes, there are
people who see racism and are inspired to write about it, with the goal in mind to make a difference and
change society's belief.

CHALLENGES TO CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE

 Literature is language-based and national; contemporary society is globalizing and polyglot.

 Vernacular means of everyday communication “cellphones, social networks, streaming video” are moving
into areas where printed text cannot follow.
 Intellectual property systems failing.
 Means of book promotion, distribution and retail destabilized.
 Ink-on-paper manufacturing is an outmoded, toxic industry with steeply rising costs.
 Core demographic for printed media is aging faster than the general population. Failure of print and
newspapers is disenfranching young apprentice writers.
 Media conglomerates have poor business model; economically rationalized "culture industry" is actively
hostile to vital aspects of humane culture.
 Long tail Balkanizes audiences, disrupts means of canon-building and fragments literary reputation.
 Digital public-domain transforms traditional literary heritage into a huge, cost-free, portable, searchable
database, radically transforming the reader's relationship to belle-lettres.
 Barriers to publication entry have crashed, enabling huge torrent of subliterary and/or nonliterary textual
expression.
 Algorithms and social media replacing work of editors and publishing houses; network socially-generated
texts replacing individually-authored texts.
 "Convergence culture" obliterating former distinctions between media; books becoming one minor aspect
of huge tweet/ blog/ comics/ games / soundtrack/ television / cinema / ancillary-merchandise pro-fan
franchises.
 Scholars steeped within the disciplines becoming cross-linked jack-of-all-trades virtual intelligentsia.
 Academic education system suffering severe bubble-inflation.
 Polarizing civil cold war is harmful to intellectual honesty.