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Absurdism was the 20th Century’s most popular non-realistic genre. Although the climax of The Theater of the Absurd was in the late 1940’s and early 1950’s, this style still influences writers today.
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The "angry young men" were a group of mostly working and middle class British playwrights and novelists who became prominent in the 1950s. The group's leaders included John Osborne and Kingsley Amis. 1950-1989
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Post-colonial literature( since 1950s) is a body of literary writings that reacts to the discourse of colonization. Post-colonial literature often involves writings that deal with issues of de-colonization or the political and cultural independence of people formerly subjugated to colonial rule. It is also a literary critique to texts
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The term Postmodern literature is used to describe certain tendencies in post-World War II literature. It is both a continuation of the experimentation championed by writers of the modernist period (relying heavily, for example, on fragmentation, paradox, questionable narrators, etc.). Postmodern literature, like postmodernism as a whole, is difficult to define and there is little agreement on the exact characteristics, scope, and importance of postmodern literature.
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Bleak, absurdist play. Profoundly affected English literature.
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