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Literature
• The range of years in 21st century
literature was written from (roughly) the
year 2001 to the present.
• New literary works created within the last
decade.
• Deals with current themes/issues and
reflects a technological culture
• Often breaks traditional writing rules
• Emerging genres like IM and blog format
books, digi-fiction, doodle.
Isagani Cruz, Philippine Star
•Why 21st century only?
Simply because SHS students
were all born in or just before the
21st century. This century is their
century.
 21st Century Reader :
• grew up using technology as a primary learning
tool
• is capable of navigating and interpreting digital
formats and media messages
• possesses literacy skills which include
technological abilities such as keyboarding,
internet navigation, interpretation of
technological speak, ability to communicate and
interpret coded language and decipher graphics.
21st Century Literacy
New Contexts
• Society and technology change, so literacy also changes.
• Technology has increased the intensity and complexity of literate
environments.
• This century demands that a literate person possesses a wide range of
abilities and competencies, much literacy.
• These literacies—from reading online newspapers to participating in
virtual classrooms— are multiple, dynamic, and malleable.
• The 21st century readers and writers need to develop proficiency with
the tools of technology.
• Build relationships with others to pose and solve problems
collaboratively and cross-culturally.
• Design and share information for global communities to meet a variety
of purposes.
• Create critique, analyze, and evaluate multi-media texts.
21st Century
Literary
Genres
1.Illustrated Novels
•Story through text and illustrated images
•Generally, 50% of the narrative is presented without
words.
•The reader must interpret the images in order to
comprehend the complete story.
•Textual portions are presented in traditional form.
•Some illustrated novels may contain no text at all.
•Illustrated novels span all genres.
Example:
Trese 5:
Midnight
Tribunal
Carlo Vergara’s “Zsazsa Zaturnnah
sa Kalakhang Maynila ”
 Zsazsa Zaturnnah
• On May 25, 2008, author Carlo Vergara
released the first six pages of the Zaturnnah
sequel through his blog as an online preview.
Forty pages were eventually posted online.
The sequel, entitled Zsazsa Zaturnnah sa
Kalakhang Maynila (Zsazsa Zaturnnah in
Metro Manila), chronicles Ada and Dodong's
stay in Manila. The first of three parts of the
Zaturnnah sequel was eventually published
and released on January 25, 2012.
Alice in the
Wonderland
2.Digi-Fiction
•is a literary experience that combines three
media: book, movie/video, and Internet
website.
•In order to get the full story, students must
engage in navigation, reading, viewing, in all
three formats.
•A graphic novel is a narrative work in
which the story is conveyed to the reader
using comic form.
•The term is employed in a broad manner,
encompassing non-fiction works and
thematically linked short stories as well as
fictional stories across a number of
genres.
 4.Manga
•Manga is the Japanese word for comics.
•It is used in the English-speaking world as
a generic term for all comic books and
graphic novels originally published in
Japan.
 Classroom teachers should be aware of different
kinds of Manga identified by the intended
reader.
•Shônen – Boy’s Manga (pronounced Show-Nen)
•Shôjo – Girl’s Manga (pronounced Show-Joe)
•Seinen – Men’s Manga (pronounced Say-Nen)
•Josei – Women’s Manga (pronounced Joe-Say)
•Kodomo – Children’s Manga (pronounced
Kow-Dow-Mow)
 5.Doodle Fiction
•Drawings enhance the story, often adding
humorous elements that would be missing if
the illustrations were omitted.
 6.Blog, E-mail, and IM Novels
•Text-Talk Novels Blog,
e-mail, & IM format
narratives - Stories
told almost
completely in
dialogue simulating
social network
exchanges.
 Blog
• A web log ; a website containing short articles
called posts that are changed regularly.
• Same blogs are written by one person
containing their own opinions, interests and
experiences, while others are written by many
different people.
Other
Genres
Chick literature
• addresses issues of modern womanhood,
often humorously and light-heartedly.
• Chick it typically features a female
protagonist whose womanhood is heavily
thermalized in the plot.
 Flash Fiction
• Is a style of fictional literature of extreme
brevity.
• There is no widely accepted definition of
the length of the category. It could range
from word to a thousand.
 • Ernest Hemingway:
For sale: baby socks, never worn.
• Margaret Atwood:
Longed for him. Got him. Shit.
Hyperpoet
ry
Science
Fiction
Fantasy
Horr
Superhero
Fiction
Utopian
Fiction
Dystopian
Fiction