Module 10: Conflicting Ideologies

A mural of Toni Morrison who is a winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
She carries on the tradition of American Postmodernist literature

As you have seen, the Modernists greatly changed the face of American literature. At the same time, many of them made a name for American literature on the international front by winning prestigious international literary awards. A new literary age had dawned throughout the world, and American authors were at the forefront. Always representative of the great American Dream of finding freedom and individuality, American writers had made a name for themselves.

The age of technology, economic uncertainty, and war served as a harbinger for contemporary literature. Although World War II marked the end of the Modernist movement, it did not mean an end to literary revival. Many Modernists continued to produce popular works well past the 1950s, but a new wave of writers arose from the ashes of the world wars, and they are what makes American literature a leader in contemporary world literature.

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