Reading and Writing Skills for Students of Literature in English: Postwar; Postmodern; Postcolonial

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Reading and Writing Skills for Students of
Literature in English Postwar Postmodern
Postcolonial

• Enric Monforte
• Jacqueline Hurtley
• Bill Phillips

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1939-2010
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George VIs death (1952)
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Elizabeth II (1952)

• Photo by Cecil Beaton

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Governments since the war

• 1945-51 Labour governments (Clement Attlee)

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• 1951-64 Conservative governments (Winston
  Churchill, Anthony Eden and Harold Macmillan)

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• 1964-70 Labour governments (Harold Wilson)
• 1970-74 Conservative governments (Edward Heath)

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• 1974-79 Labour governments (Harold Wilson, James
  Callaghan)

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• 1979-97 Conservative governments (Margaret
  Thatcher, John Major)

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• 1997-2010 New Labour governments (Tony Blair,
  Gordon Brown)

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• 2010- Conservative/Liberal Democrat government
  (David Cameron, Nick Clegg)

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Second World War (1939-1945)
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U.S. cargo ship carrying ammunition explodes
after being bombed by German aircraft. Right,
D-day landing (6 June 1944)
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Winston Churchill

• When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never
  to criticize or attack the government of my own
  country. I make up for lost time when I come
  home.

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The Yalta Conference (1945)
Cold War
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San Francisco Conference (1945)

• To reach agreement on an international
  organization designed to keep the peace in the
  postwar world. The most important document was
  the Charter of the United Nations, adopted by the
  conferees on 25 June 1945

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End of the Second World War (8 May 1945)
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6 August / 9 August atom bombs dropped on
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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The Welfare State (1945)

• Social Policy in the UK
• "And when it gets really cold, just remember
  we're the envy of Europe."
• Cartoon by Bill McArthur

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• The family as the cornerstone of social
  reconstruction
• Beginnings of youth culture the Teddy boy
• The television age

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The Empire

• Britain loses its position as leading colonial
  power
• 1947 India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Burma
• 1948 State of Israel, Republic of Ireland
• 1957 Ghana

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• Witch-hunt in the USA led by senator Joe
  McCarthy

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• Chinese Revolution led by Mao Tse-Tung (1946-49)
• Korean War (1950-53)

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• Suez crisis (July-October 1956)

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1960s

• Lady Chatterley trial (1960)
• 1967 Abortion Act, Sexual Offences Act
  decriminalising homosexuality
• Divorce Reform Act (1969)
• Equal Pay Act (1970)

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_Pathway.php
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• Mary Whitehouses Clean-up TV campaign. Below,
  with Mick Jagger (1964)

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• Rise of youth culture and pop music the Beatles,
  the Rolling Stones and rocknroll

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• Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) (1958)
• Late 1960s start of womens liberation and gay
  and lesbian liberation movements

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Immigration

• Late 1950s-mid 1960s massive arrival of
  immigrants from Commonwealth nations
• First Race Relations Act (1965)
• Second Race Relations Act (1968)

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Immigration

• National Front founded by Enoch Powell (1966)

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Out of England

• The Troubles
• Re-emergence of the IRA (1969)
• Scottish and Welsh nationalism

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.htm
Left, a government attempt to stop a Catholic
civil rights demonstration turns into a riot,
setting off 'the Troubles.' Right, residents flee
burning homes in Belfast.
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The Empire

• More colonies gain independence
• Cyprus, Nigeria (1960)
• Tanzania, Republic of South Africa (1961)
• Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda (1962)
• Kenya (1963)
• Malta, Zambia (1964)
• Barbados, Guyana (1966)
• Zimbabwe (1979)

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• Vietnam War (1956-1975)
• Hippie movement

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• Paris, May 1968

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1970s

• Increasing industrial tension
• Miners strike (1973-74)
• Youth culture skinheads and punks

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• Britain joins the EEC (1973)
• A new design of fifty pence coin was issued to
  commemorate its entry into the European Economic
  Community

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• Racial tensions
• Sex Discrimination Act, Equal Opportunities
  Commission (1975)
• Third Race Relations Act, Commission for racial
  equality (1976)
• Germaine Greers The Female Eunuch
• (1970)

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Northern Ireland

• Derrys Bloody Sunday (30 January 1972)

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• Northern Ireland Parliament suspended direct
  rule from London (1972)
• IRA bombing campaign in Britain (1974)
• Prevention of Terrorism Act (1974)
• Referendum on devolution in Scotland and Wales
  defeated (1979)
• IRA bombs the
• Parliament, injuring 11 people
• (17 June 1974)

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1979

• The winter of discontent
• May Margaret Thatcher comes to power

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1980s Thatcherism

• Miners strike (1984-85)
• Privatization, popular
• capitalism and enterprise
• culture
• Post-industrialization
• and the age of information technology (IT)
• Right, miners picket outside Port Talbot Steel
  Works, 3 April 1984

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t.htm
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Thatcherism end of Welfare State

• Social Security Act (1986)
• Housing Act (1980)
• Education Reform Act (1988)
• Polarization North vs. South

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• Royal wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana
  Spencer, 29 July 1981
• Death of Princess Diana, 31 August 1997

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• Falklands War (1982) nostalgia for Empire

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• Urban / race riots
• Bristol and Brighton (1980)
• London and Liverpool (1981)
• Birmingham (1985)

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• IRA bomb attacks in London (1982)
• Anglo-Irish Agreement between London and Dublin
  governments to promote peace in Northern Ireland
  (1985)

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• Fall of the Berlin Wall (1989)

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cannot-withstand-faith-truth-freedom/photograph-fr
om-the-fall-of-the-berlin-wall-november-9-1989/
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1990s and beyond

• First Gulf War (1990-91)
• War in Bosnia (1992-95)

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Srebrenica massacre
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New Labour
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Out of England

• 31 August 1994 Ceasefire announced by IRA
• Devolving assemblies in Scotland (1997), Wales
  (1997) and Northern Ireland (Belfast agreement or
  Good Friday Agreement, 1998)

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-heritage/pages-in-history/important-irish-interna
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The new millennium

• The Millennium Dome, London

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9/11/2001, New York City

• War on Terror

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New Labour InternationalPolitics

• Iraq war
• Azores, 16 March 2003

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Second Battle of Fallujah, Second Gulf War, 2004

• Second Gulf War or Iraq War (2003)
• New forms of global terrorism (11-M, 7/7)

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7/7, London 2005
11-M, Madrid 2004
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• Globalisation
• Environmental crises

British Petroleum Oil Spill in the Gulf of
Mexico, 2010
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Changes in the monarchy

• 9 April 2005 Royal wedding of Prince Charles and
  Camilla Parker Bowles, Duchess of Cornwall

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May 2010 a new coalition
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