CONTEMPORARY NARRATIVES IN ENGLISH

11 Feb

CONTEMPORARY NARRATIVES IN ENGLISH

BRAINSTORMING (Art, Literatures, Politics, Culture, Society, Fashion,
Music, Communication, Space, identity)

Freedom of speech(ideal)/censorship(reality), innovation, accessibility
(the Internet), the critical reader (in literature and on the Internet),
globalization (mobility and communication but "global city" –a macro
city where you can do everything in the same place without moving-; it
turns everything in exactly the same), democracy of the web (the way
people get news), sexual identity, hybridity, emerging countries,

When does contemporaneity start?

the 60s because it started a contemporary attitude. (The Beatles, the
hippie movement, "Swinging Sixties". This atmosphere made people change;
act of liberation.

In terms of politics, the beginning of the Cold War and the Berlin Wall.

In Britain ( The "Swinging Sixties" liberation in terms of fashion,

1964 Labour Party. 1967 Homosexuality become decriminalizing bus
lesbianism was never so there was no law against them.

Challenge to authority.

In the 70s replied for the sixties