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Contemporary literature is literature which is generally set after World War II and coincident with contemporary history. [ citation needed ] Subgenres of contemporary literature include contemporary romance and others.
The list was criticized as biased towards English-language books, particularly those published by American authors. [3] Nigerian academic Ainehi Edoro criticized the lack of literature by African authors and the predominance of American literature on the list and called the list "an act of cultural erasure". [4]
The Black Book (1990) by Orhan Pamuk [63] Vineland (1990) by Thomas Pynchon [64] Soul Mountain (1990) by Gao Xingjian [65] Haroun and the Sea of Stories (1990) by Salman Rushdie [66] American Psycho (1991) by Bret Easton Ellis [67] Time's Arrow (1991) by Martin Amis [68] The Gold Bug Variations (1991) by Richard Powers [69] Mao II (1991) by Don ...
The book is presented as a set of love letters from a man, William, to a girl he meets on the street, Anne. Set in Antebellum New England, the book follows their developing love for each other in a very formal society. This work is monological with embedded poetry with both romantic and religious overtones. Nabokov, Vladimir: Ada: 1969 Nieves ...
The 21st century in literature refers to world literature produced during the 21st century. The measure of years is, for the purpose of this article, literature written from (roughly) the year 2001 to the present. 2001 – The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen; [1] Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand; [2] Life of Pi by Yann Martel ...
As contemporary romance novels have grown to contain more complex plotting and more realistic characters, the line between this subgenre and the genre of women's fiction has blurred. [ 5 ] Most contemporary romance novels contain elements that date the books, and the majority of them eventually become irrelevant to more modern readers and go ...