What is 21st Century Literature?

What is 21st Century Literature? What are the different formats used by today's writers? Why should it be studied by senior high school students? I used these slides in one of our class discussions. I hope this could help senior high school teachers teaching literature.
As for the video, you may go to YouTube and look for Juan Miguel Severo's Ito na ang Huling Tulang Isusulat ko Para Sayo.

1. 21 ST CENTURY LITERATURE

2. Are these familiar to you?

3. 21 st Century Literature New literary works created within the last decade Imaginative writing Deals with current themes and reflects technological culture Often breaks traditional writing Traces artistic representation of shared and familiar experiences

4. Why 21 st Century Literature? Simply because SHS students were all born in or just before the 21st century. This century is their century. For them, the 20th century is what the 19th century is to us teachers. - Isagani Cruz, Philippine Star

5. Why 21 st Century Literature? “On or about December 1910 human character changed, something major happened to literature on or about December 2000 .” - Virginia Woolf

6. ILLUSTRATED NOVELS Story through text and illustrated images

7. DIGI-FICTION It is a literary experience that combines three media: book, movie/video, and Internet websites.

8. GRAPHIC NOVELS Narrative in comic book formats.

9. MANGA It is used in the English-speaking world as a generic term for all comic books and graphic novels originally published in Japan .

10. DOODLE FICTION A literary presentation where the author incorporates doodle drawings and hand written graphics in place of traditional font.

11. CHICK-LIT Genre of fiction which addresses issues of modern womanhood, often humorously and lightheartedly.

12. FLASH FICTION A style of fictional literature of extreme brevity

13. Ernest Hemingway: For sale: baby socks, never worn . Margaret Atwood : Longed for him. Got him. Shit.

14. SPECULATIVE FICTION Dystopian, supernatural fiction, weird fiction, superhero fiction, apocalyptic/post-apocalyptic, fantastical fiction, sci-fi

15. SPOKEN POETRY Oral art that focuses on the aesthetics of word play and intonation and voice inflection.

16. “Reading literature gives one a better understanding of human nature and the complexity of the human condition. It makes one less judgemental and more sympathetic. Literature can also be more insightful than non-fiction .” – Professor Tommy Koh

17. “The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for the creative life of 21 st Century.” – Carlos Fuentes

18. THERE’S LITERATURE ON SOCIAL MEDIA! Place your screenshot here

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20. BALEG A SALAMAT! W ala’y tepet yo?