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Disillusion, Defiance, and Discount 1914-1946 . By Kristin Clark, Sammi Wallace, Sage Kitson Brianna Rose, Tim Devos. Writers of International Renown. Modern dramatically altered complexion of American Literature Proof of Americans that won the Nobel Piece Award.
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Disillusion, Defiance, and Discount1914-1946 By Kristin Clark, Sammi Wallace, Sage Kitson Brianna Rose, Tim Devos
Writers of International Renown • Modern dramatically altered complexion of American Literature • Proof of Americans that won the Nobel Piece Award. • Nobel Prize for Literature was established in 1901 • The first person to win the Nobel piece award was Sinclair Lewis in 1930
Harlem Renaissance • A new literary age was dawning • African American writers came from the south • In 1921 it began with the publications of Countee Cullens • Writers belonged to no single school of literature • They saw them as a new exciting movement
Prominent American Writers • F. Scott Fitzgerald • T.S. ELIOT • LANGSTON HUGHES • The Great Gatsby • THE WASTE LAND • THE WEARY BLUES
Prominent WORLD FIGURES • CHAING Kai-shek • Mahatma Gandhi • Adolf Hitler • Head of nationalist government • Led march to the sea to protest British tax on salt • German chanceller
Major Achievements of America 2 major wars between 1914-1945 1920-19th amendment passed -1st radio broadcast 19271st trans-Atlantic flight made by Lindbergh -first “Talkie” released 1928- Earhart first to fly across Atlantic 1940- men were drafted for WWII 1941- Unemployment ended
Political, Social, and cultural trends • 1917-WWI begins • 1929-Stock market crashes • 1933-Roosevelt closes banks • 1940-cival Aeronautic board created • 1941- Japan bombs Pearl Harbor • 1944- Roosevelt reelected
1945-Atom bombs dropped • Sept 2, 1945- WWII ends • World Events • 1919- France- Treaty ends WWI • 1929- Japan: collapse of American Silk Market hurts workers • 1933- Germany: Hitler becomes German Chancellor • 1936- Spain: Spanish civil war begins • 1939- Poland: German blitzkrieg invasion sets off WWII • 1945- United Nations charter signed @ end of WWII
The Birth of Modernism • The Devastation of World War 1 brought a new era of Literature which was called Modernism Lit. • The War brought a end to Optimism that characterized the years preceding of war • People strived to find new literature that better fit the twentieth-century life style
The Harlem Renaissance • The Harlem Renaissance stared up in 1921 • The Harlem Renaissance was based out of Greenwich Village, and soon was all over Paris, and starting to showing in Manhattan. • many new poems and books where coming out during this time because it was a new era of writing and lit. • we never really saw African Americans be creative with there writing and ideas. But now that we are coming into a new era we see the African Americans being creative with writing and other lit.
Imagism • Modernist movement was ushered by a poetic movement known as Imagism • The movement occurred in 1917 • Imagism attracted both the United States and England • Imagists rebelled against the sentimentality nineteenth century poetry.