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Influenced by names what a literary movement was actually reacting to. Wikipedia notes Romanticism arose "in response to the Age of Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution," rejecting the cool rationalism of the age before it. This dimension shows the earlier forces that shaped a given literary movement.

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1. Postcolonial Literature (Wikipedia)
Postcolonial literature, West Indies naming section
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The term West Indies first began to achieve wide currency in the 1950s, when writers such as Samuel Selvon, John Hearne, Edgar Mittelholzer, V.S. Naipaul, and George Lamming began to be published in the United Kingdom.
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