21st Century Literature from the Philippines and the World

1. Moment of Silence
As you come in, find your seat quietly, and
take some deep breaths to calm your mind
before class begins.

3. Stress Check
I’m in a
good space
and can
focus
Something
is bothering
me, but I
can still
focus
I can’t
manage my
emotions or
behaviors
right now
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5. LET US REVIEW!

6. Jot down what are the things you have learned from your
previous discussion:

8. Any ideas or thoughts about those
pictures?
What kind of literary texts do you
think are they?

9. L __ __ __ __ __ __ __ G__ __ __ __ __
GUESS ME!

10. Objectives:
At the end of the discussion, you are expected to perform
with 85 accuracy of the following:
• identify the 21st century literary genre of the given
literary texts
• evaluate the traits of an effective writer through online
class participation and;
• create your own text tula using the theme "love"
through text-messaging

11. 21st Century Literary
Genres

12. What is Literary Genre?
A literary genre is a style of writing.
The word genre means "artistic category or
style," and you can talk about a movie's genre, or
the genre of music that drives you crazy.

13. CHIKLITCHICK
• It is marketed as a “for women, by women, about women” genre.
• It is writing about the feelings of women, and the “every women type-heroine, complete
with dieting woes and dating insecurities”.
• Focuses on the social lives and relationship of young professional women and often
aimed at readers with similar experiences.
• it addresses issues of womanhood, often humorously and lightheartedly

14. EXAMPLES:
-"The Wrong Girl" by
Zoe Foster
- "Bridget Jones's
Diary" by Helen
Fielding
- "Trading Up" by
Candace Bushnell

15. HYPERPOETRY
• refers to work of verses which could NOT be presented without computer.
• includes verses (not necessarily lines or stanzas) with links or hyperlinks which will
redirect readers to a different site or subpoem.
• A poetry with moving images and pictures.

16. EXAMPLES

17. EXAMPLES

18. BLOG
• a website containing short articles called posts that are changed regularly.
• Princetone’s Worldsnet database defines a blog as a “shared online journal where people
can post the diary entries about their personal experiences and hobbies, posting on a
blog are usually in a chronological order”.
• it is written in an informal or conversational style
• Some blogs are written by one person containing their own opinions, interests and
experience, while others are written by different people.

19. EXAMPLES:

20. SPECULATIVE FICTION
• a literary “super genre,” which encompasses a number of different genres
of fiction, each with speculative elements that are based on conjecture and
do not exist in the real world. Sometimes called “what-if” books,
speculative literature changes the laws of what’s real or possible as we
know them in our current society, and then speculates on the outcome.

21. EXAMPLES:

22. TEXT TULA
• it is a cell phone novel, or mobile phone novel is a literary work originally written on a
cellular phone via text messaging.
• It is originated from Japan
• feature the use of fragments, conversational, simple and delicate language.

23. EXAMPLES

24. FLASH FICTION
• it is a style of fictional literature with extreme brevity.
• it is also called prose-poetry and needs to be read slowly like a poem because missing a
word can change the meaning of the story entirely.
• it was coined by James Thomas, in 1992, to include stories of up to 750 words count.
Nevertheless, due to the continuous reconfiguration and mutation of the flash fiction
genre, its word count now ranges from 50 words to 1,000 words or from 75 words to
1,500 words.

25. EXAMPLES

26. GRAPHIC NOVEL
• are books written and illustrated in the style of a comic book.
• the story is told using a combination of words and pictures in a sequence across the
page.
• it can be of any genre, and tell any kind of story, just like their prose counterpart.

27. EXAMPLE

28. LET US
PRACTICE!

29. Direction: Identify the literary genre of the given literary piece and explain
its main features.
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35. TIME TO
RECAPITULATE!

36. Amongst the 21st century literary genres, which one of
it you are having difficulty understanding with?

37. What do we call the values when a writer tends to consider
the feelings of his/her target audience?