Darwin Planteras

BSED 3A

LIT 8

Issues and challenges of contemporary literature

Before delving into the issues and challenges of contemporary literature, let us first
understand the importance of contemporary literature. This is literature that was published after
World War II and is still called modern literature today. There are 18 problems and challenges in
contemporary literature. So literature is language-based and national. This is because in a world
where the emphasis is on accepting other nationalities and cultures at face value over tradition,
the very nature of literary works written in a particular challenging language is an act of hostility.
means Colloquially, this means that mobile phones, social media, video blogs, etc. are entering
realms of everyday communication that cannot be followed by printed text. Social media editors
have largely taken over the job of individual writers, but it's hard to find a job right now because
social media editors have it all. Newspapers and magazines were once the main source of
information, but now the Internet and computers are rapidly becoming the world's most important
source of cultural information.

Scientists who are well versed in such different fields artistically form networks of different
research. The academic education sector is also in a state of extreme deflation, as universities are
plentiful but not in high demand. The polarization of the Civil War undermines intellectual integrity.
I honestly don't get it that far, but I do understand that differences of opinion can lead to win-lose
arguments. Intellectual property laws are ineffective, but piracy, plagiarism, and copyright on the
Internet still exist, and it is not uncommon for advanced nations of artistic creation to own licensed
works even years after the author's death. Copyright is still alive in the world, such as

Most agree that the era of modern composition began in his 1940s. Some scholars argue
that this era started towards the end of World War II, and that it was here that the era and
postmodern writing merged. The postmodern era began in his 1940s after World War II and lasted
until the 1960s. The present reaches the present. This literary class is rooted in the devastating
wars that have wrought upon the world, although contemporary composing work is generally
influenced by the prosperous post-World War II lifestyle. In the post-war spirit another reality
flourished, containing personal negativity, confusion and dissatisfaction that was fundamental to
this literary age. The horrors of war – bombings, ground battles, genocide, corruption – are the way
to this kind of literature. Departing from these actual themes, they find the beginning of a new
writing period. In fact, literature is one approach to understanding and addressing the problematic
social issues that shape our reality. Some of the social issues that the writing basically deals with
are prejudices and prejudices, especially against women, ethnicities and races.

social issues in contemporary literature

• Women in Literature
• Ethnic in Literature
• Racism in Literature

Women in literature

Women authors are on the rise, offering a wide range of ethnic and cultural perspectives
to today's readers. The distinctive voice of minority women is a common theme in many coming-
of-age novels, allowing each writer to create distinct identities for their characters and
themselves. Women in contemporary literature feature strong, independent women who are
contrasted with oppressed women to serve as role models for younger readers and to criticize
the shortcomings of our society. often Later, authors such as Virginia Woolf and Simone de
Beauvoir wrote about women's inability to assert their power in her essays A Room of My Own
and The Second Sex. To the Girls of Color Contemplating Suicide/When the Rainbow Disappears
by Shanji Tozake tells the story of seven women who are oppressed in a racist and sexist society.

Ethnic in literature
Many contemporary artists such as Alice Walker and Toni Morrison have explored the
dual persecution of black women in the United States through identity and gender. The
development of these themes goes back to Sojourner Truth's 1851 discourse "I Am Not a
Woman", and also to Zora Neale Hurston's 1937 epic poem "Their Eyes Were Seeing God". .
Hurston's novels with strong female heroines are direct precursors to Walker and Morrison's
books (e.g., The Color Purple and Beloved People) and include references to ethnic groups. By
definition it is like any other literature, except that When readers labeled "naive" because of their
relative ignorance of the function of literary forms encounter ethno literature, they respond fully
to the veracity of the narrative and equate literature with life. The plot and storytelling disappear
from the naive reader's consciousness, and "Native Sun" and "Black Boy" are similar to "From
Slavery to Freedom" in that they seem to be references to objective reality.

Racism in literature
The following essays discuss elements of racism as themes in Margaret Lawrence's short
story The Loons, Langston Hughes' poems I Too, Sing America, and W.E. "The Soul of the Negro
People" by B. du Bois. The Loons is a short story written by Margaret Lawrence and published in
1970, along with other stories in the A Bird in the House series. A disease of the ignorant, racism
has been a terrifying part of society and has taken on its ugly face throughout history and
continues to do so today. Racism comes in many forms and is directed against different cultures.
Often times, people see racism and are inspired to write about it, with the goal of making a
difference in society and changing the beliefs of society.

Challenges in contemporary literature.

• Literature is language-based and national. Today's society is globalized and multilingual.

• Spoken, everyday communication tools such as mobile phones, social networks, and
video streaming are penetrating areas where printed text cannot keep up.
• The intellectual property protection system is not working.
• Precarious funding for book promotion, distribution and retail.
• The production of ink on paper is an outdated and harmful industry with rising costs.
• The print media core population is aging faster than the population as a whole. The
decline of print media and newspapers means that young apprentice writers will lose their
rights.
• Media conglomerates have a bad business model. The economically rationalized "cultural
industry" is actively hostile to the important aspects of humanistic culture.
• The “long tail” divides audiences, thwarts canonization opportunities and divides literary
reputations.
• The Digital Public Domain transforms traditional literary heritage into a vast, free,
portable and searchable database, fundamentally changing the relationship between
readers and fiction.
• Barriers to access to publications have collapsed, resulting in a vast influx of sub-literary
and/or non-literary textual representations.
• Algorithms and social media will replace the jobs of editors and publishers. A network of
socially generated texts that replace personally written texts.
• A “convergence culture” that blurs previous distinctions between media. Books are
becoming a sideline for large-scale tweets, blogs, comics, games, soundtracks, television,
movies, and additional professional fan series.
 • The unstable computer and mobile phone interface is becoming the world's most
important means of accessing culture. The compositor system recreates the media in his
own hybrid Creole image.
• Academics immersed in their fields become networked jacks-of-all-trades and virtual
intellectuals.
• The academic education system is suffering from severe bubble inflation.
• Polarizing Civil War undermines intellectual integrity.
• The Gothic destiny of Poor Murdered Poetry is the specter of this vanishing feast.

As person who grew up on the top of technology, I appreciate and advocate the
convenience that e-books and other technology tools bring. No matter how convenient e-books
are for me, I still prefer physical copies of all literary works. Because e-books are a distraction from
reality, and notifications from other apps running in the background won't distract you while you're
using your phone. The problem that struck me the most is that an author or author loses the
intellectual property of his or her work. The sad reality is that the Internet offers us everything,
including pirated e-books and other literary works, that we can now find and download online. I
know a lot of websites that publish novels in e-books, so this is my fault, but sometimes I do if I
have a book that is over my budget. Piracy seems to be part of the times now, and I can't think of
a solution to stop it.

In conclusion, being able to pick up a physical book, pick it up, and smell the pages is a true
way to savor literature. The reality is that few people collect physical books, but the idea that the
rise of e-books doesn't mean that literature will also disappear with the gradual disappearance of
the printed I strongly disagree. Literature never dies. Reading and writing become an enduring part
of his macro skills that every human being needs to have. And the only difference in this day and
age is that we use technology-based tools to read and write from our screens. We live in a virtual
world now. We need to consider the important things around us such as diversity, representation,
censorship, gender and sexuality, and the impact of technology.