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All Modernism and Its Currents

Modernism as the broad early to mid twentieth-century movement, and the currents most closely tied to it: the Harlem Renaissance's flowering of Black American literature and art, the Lost Generation's postwar American expatriate writers, and postmodernism as the later movement defined largely by its reaction against modernist certainty. Belongs here: a movement in modernism's direct line of descent or reaction. Does not belong here: the specific avant-garde movements that fed into modernism, tracked under the early twentieth-century avant-garde group above.

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The modernist movement emerged during the late 19th century in response to significant changes in Western culture, including secularization and the growing influence of science.
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