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. 21ST CENTURY
LITERATURE

2. Are these familiar to you?

3. 21st 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 21st 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 21st 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

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

10. GRAPHIC NOVELS
Narrative in comic book formats.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

24. “
“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

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

26. THERE’S
LITERATURE
ON SOCIAL
MEDIA!
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30. BALEG A
SALAMAT!
Wala’y tepet yo?