Legality of Cannabis by U.S. Jurisdiction Literary genre generally set after World War II Literature Oral literature Folklore fable fairy tale folk play folksong heroic epic legend myth proverb Oration Performance audiobook spoken word Saying Major written forms Drama closet drama Poetry lyric narrative Prose Nonsense verse Ergodic Electronic Long prose fiction Anthology Serial Novel/romance Short prose fiction Novella Novelette Short story Drabble Sketch Flash fiction Parable Religious Wisdom Prose genres Fiction Speculative Realist Children's Genre adventure coming-of-age crime erotic fantasy military paranormal romance science fiction supernatural Western horror Historical Encyclopedic Non-fiction Academic history philosophy Anecdote Epistle Essay Journalism Letter Life Nature Persuasive Travelogue Poetry genres Narrative Epic Dramatic Verse novel National Lyric Ballad Elegy Epigram Ghazal Haiku Hymn Limerick Ode Qasida Sonnet Villanelle Lists Epic Groups and movements Poets Dramatic genres Comedy Libretto Play historical moral Satire Script Tragedy Tragicomedy History Ancient Classical Medieval Modernist Postmodern Lists and outlines Outline Glossary Books Writers Movements Cycles Literary awards poetry Theory and criticism Sociology Magazines Composition Language Narrative Feud Literature portal For the journal, see Contemporary Literature (journal). Contemporary literature is literature which is generally set after World War II and coincident with contemporary history.[citation needed] Subgenres of contemporary literature include contemporary romance and others. History[edit] Literary movements are always contemporary to the writer discussing the work of their day. Here what have been recently "contemporary" are listed by decade. The list should not be assumed to be comprehensive. 1940s[edit] Postcolonialism 1950s[edit] Absurdism Beat Generation Black Mountain poets Concrete poetry Confessional poetry The Movement Nouveau roman Oulipo San Francisco Renaissance 1960s[edit] Postmodernism British Poetry Revival Hungry generation Language poets New Wave New York School 1970s[edit] Misty Poets Spoken Word 1980s[edit] Cyberpunk Maximalism New Formalism Performance Poetry Poetry slam 1990s[edit] Post cyber punk 2000s[edit] New Weird Sastra wangi 2010s[edit] Empathism 2020s[edit] See also[edit] 2024 in literature Modernist literature Twentieth-century English literature 20th century in literature 21st century in literature 2000s in books