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When World War ll ended people saw it as an end to Modernism and the early start to Postmodernism.
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By: Armani James, Deshun Jackson and Jordan Lebeouf
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A nuclear missile stand off between the United States and Russia.
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Arnold J. Toynbee publishes "A Study of History" with the first use of the Postmodern term.
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Charles Olson welcomes in the Postmodern Literature period in "The Present is Prologue".
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One of the most important authors to contribute to the Postmodern period Vladmir Nabokov just published "Lolita" a controversial classic.
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Another important author of the Postmodern period published a controversial novel "The Naked Lunch" that was the subject of a trial. Even though the version he published was censored, but the uncensored version was published in 1962.
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"The Crying of Lot 49" is a classic Postmodern novel, but seen by most as a Postmodernism parody.
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Kurt Vonnegut, another big influential author of the Postmodern period published "Slaughterhouse-Five". A big counterculture success.
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This was her first published collection of 63 selected poetry, as most of them were about her deceased husband Stefan Wolpe.
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This was a novel that was most popular within schools, because people thought that the book used experimental fiction. Also that it was a great way to get students to think about narrative structure.
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A wicked comic and compassionate study of sexual politics glimpses of the relationships of a family and their lovers.
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The stories are about issues as religious essentialism, the boundary between realism, fiction, and the migrant condition.
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Francis Fukuyama thought there was an end to writing about history. He said,“that the decline of socialism in former Russia has become a thing of the past. There is no history; there is no alternative to capitalism”.
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The Berlin Wall fell, which symbolized soviet control. A major event that confirmed the end of the Cold War.
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Raymond Federman thinks that the Postmodern period died with Samuel Beckett in 1989.
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A popular Postmodern film of the 21st century.
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Requiem was a poem on the back of a series of short story essays called "A Man Without a Country". It is about how the Earth will feel after it is destroyed by humans not caring for it.
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A very popular Postmodern film.
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Susan Howe a famous poet of the Postmodern period published a collection of poetry in 2017. It later received the 2018 Griffin International Poetry Prize.
