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NOTES for

21st Century Literature from the Philippines and the World


QUARTER 2, MODULE 1

Topic: Differentiating 21st-Century Literary Genres (Graphic Fiction and Flash Fiction)

Literary Genres
 Genre refers to the forms of literature. As a literary device, genre refers to a form, class, or
type of literary work. The general ones are oral and written. The main types are prose and
poetry. Many other forms have sprung through the years.
 Specifically, genre is defined in the curriculum guide as something that “may be determined
by literary technique, tone, content, or even (as in the case of fiction) length.
 Two of the literary genres that have sprung in the 21 st- century are graphic fiction and flash
fiction.
 These two 21st literary genres become very popular especially among learners like you.
 Modern literary genres gain popularity due to the advent of technologies such as internet and
other virtual media which become the major platforms of most of modern literary texts like
graphic and flash fictions.
 Graphic fiction and flash fiction are two different genres of modern literature.

Graphic Fiction
 Graphic fiction or a graphic novel is a comic book narrative that is equivalent in form and
dimension to the prose novel.
 The pictures are arranged in sequenced in image panels and dialogues are written in
speech bubbles.
 The illustrations allow the readers to imagine and experience the characters and events in
the story.

Here are some of the features of graphic fiction or graphic novel:


1. Autographic forms are the marks of author’s handwriting which creates an impact that the
whole novel is a manuscript and thus provides a sense of intimacy.
2. Graphic novels encourage interactivity in the minds of the reader as he fills in the blanks
image panels.
3. Filling in the blanks between image panels makes the reader imagine the actions
portrayed in the story.
4. The language, syntax, and meaning of a graphic novel spring primarily through the
relationship between images than words.
5. Graphic fiction combines book and screen.

Some of the examples of graphic novels are the following:


1. “In the Shadow of No Towers: 9/11” by Art Spielgelman in 2004 which tells the story about
the terrorist attack on September 11, in America. This also depicts the traumatic and tragic
experience of American people during the 9/11 terrorist attack.
2. “The Barn Owl’s Wondrous Capers” by Sarnath Banerjee in 2009 portrays 18th Century
Calcutta exploiting the myth of the “Wandering Jew.”
3. “Louis Riel” by Chester Brown in 2003 is a fictionalized violent rebellion in the 19th Century
on the Canadian prairie who led by Riel.
Flash Fiction
 Flash fiction is imaginative literature of extreme brevity. It could range from a word to a
thousand. It is known as micro stories, postcard fiction, nanotales and short shorts.

Most of the flash fictions have these common characteristics.


1. Brevity. Flash fiction presents the story with fewest words as possible.
2. Complete plot. Flash fiction emphasizes the development of plot. It has a beginning, middle,
and ending of the story.
3. Surprising ending. The successful hallmark of a flash fiction is its twist at the end of the story.

Here are some of the flash fictions:


1. “Angels and Blueberries” by Tara Campbell -is a story of various explanations for the color of
the sky that involves angels and blueberries.
2. “Taylor Swift” by Hugh Behm-Steinberg -tells a weird story of how anyone can order a
perfectly clone of Taylor Swift at his doorsteps.
3. “Unnecessary Things” by Tatyana Tolstaya -is a story of finding an old and torn teddy bear,
“unnecessary things” (items that do not serve any useful purpose), that she adored as a child.

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