A03 Flashcards
(9 cards)
1
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Major political changes in Britain
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- Britain’s power declining
- Thatcherism, allowing the social inequality to grow through privatising industries
- wealthy economic boom
2
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Impact of WW2
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- Nazis responsible for 6 million jews
- public struggled with the vast scale of this and writers became compelled to reflect the impact
- fragmentary texts
- war gave a heightened sense of social justice
3
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The Cold War
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- Tensions between the communist Soviet Union and capitalist America
- development of nuclear weapons
- impending sense of disaster and destruction reflected through dystopian novels
4
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Anti-war Protests
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-Campaign groups set up protest against war
-they reflect the declining deference towards authority
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5
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Resistance and Rebellion
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- A declining trust in politicians
- large scale strikes in Britain
- post 1945 resulted in a growth in youth-culture
- literature seen a vehicle to represent political protest
- traditional literary forms rejected and a boom in satirical writing
6
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Changing morality and social structures
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- Contraceptive pill introduced in 1961
- Family planning act
- Abortion legalised 1967
- Family structures changing with divorce easier
7
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Gender, class, race and ethnicity
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- Increased opportunities for women
- contraceptive pill allowed women to assert authority over their sexuality
- domination of improvements in social conditions in the political agenda
- war brought an increase in migrants in Caribbean
- rise in racial violence
- second and third wave feminism
8
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Imperialism and post-imperialism
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- Britain expanding their control through colonisation
- many writers were compelled to write about the breakdown of the British empire and to look at alternative perspectives of the colonies
9
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Irish Nationalism
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- The open sectarian and political conflict
- the troubles have inspired a wave of important literary writing
