There are two links to timelines and history of the Twentieth Century in the LINKS section to the right of this post. In Section A - Contextual Linking Exam, you do need to know about the cultural, historical and social changes in the world and think about how they have influenced modern literature and the struggle for identity. Race, Gender, Political/Social, Religious, Sexual.
Big changes in the world clearly affect writers and what they write about. Do you know enough about what has happened in your world?
You would do well to read through and think about how we have been developing this century. e.g. emancipation of women, attitudes to race, changes in attitudes to sexual identity, attitudes to sex itself, family life and changes in attitudes to children, the rise of the teenager, social pressures, impact of war and terrorism, national identities, shifts in attitude to ecology and the world around us. Big events change our way of thinking and what we write about.
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