Dominique Harris Literature and Social Reality Literature and Social Reality During many of the most wonderful works of literature is a plethora of events taken place outside the door of the writer’s world. [31], Social realism was also adopted by Hindi films of the 1940s and 1950s, including Chetan Anand's Neecha Nagar (1946), which won the Palme d'Or at the first Cannes Film Festival, and Bimal Roy's Two Acres of Land (1953), which won the International Prize at the 1954 Cannes Film Festival. Issues such as short-term sexual relationships, adultery, and illegitimate births flourished during the Second World War[25] and Box, who favoured realism over what he termed as "flamboyance fantasy",[26] brought these and other social issues, such as child adoption, juvenile delinquency, and displaced persons to the fore with films such as When the Bough Breaks (1947), Good-Time Girl (1948), Portrait from Life (1948), The Lost People (1949), and Boys in Brown (1949). Equal rights and social value is a matter that needs to be taken extremely seriously. Afterall it is the only sure thing anyone will ever do. During this period the American society was being pushed and pulled in different directions by a variety of social forces and trends. Literature is also a tool for the foundation of a religion. Falsehood is a constant in both stories. The main ones are gender, race, or wealth. Berger and Luckmann begin with emphasizing strongly on the multiple interpretations of “reality” amongst the “intersubjective world” they share. The term dates on a broader scale to the Realist movement in French art during the mid-19th century. As sociologists explain the social construction of reality they have observed that each society or the social groups that each person belongs to forms ones particular views on life. Berger and Luckmann follow the Schutz’s concept of viewing the reality of everyday life as an “intersubjective world”- a world shared with many others. "[5], Notable Ashcan works include George Luks’ Breaker Boy and John Sloan’s Sixth Avenue Elevated at Third Street. Debt-ridden farms were foreclosed by the thousands, and sharecroppers and tenant farmers were turned from the land. In the world of the salesman, Willy Loman, who can not see who he is nor distinguish reality from fantasy, and the world of Ivan Ilych, who can not see his life for what it is nor find true happiness, reality is hard to distinguish. In the more limited meaning of the term, Social Realism with roots in European Realism became an important art movement during the Great Depression in the United States in the 1930s. The setting allows Mark Twain to show the readers difference between Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer. American Social Realism includes the works of such artists as those from the Ashcan School including Edward Hopper, and Thomas Hart Benton, Will Barnet, Ben Shahn, Jacob Lawrence, Paul Meltsner, Romare Bearden, Rafael Soyer, Isaac Soyer, Moses Soyer, Reginald Marsh, John Steuart Curry, Arnold Blanch, Aaron Douglas, Grant Wood, Horace Pippin, Walt Kuhn, Isabel Bishop, Paul Cadmus, Doris Lee, Philip Evergood, Mitchell Siporin, Robert Gwathmey, Adolf Dehn, Harry Sternberg, Gregorio Prestopino, Louis Lozowick, William Gropper, Philip Guston, Jack Levine, Ralph Ward Stackpole, John Augustus Walker and others. Literature Is a Mirror of Society. Realism was heavily against romanticism, a genre dominating French literature and artwork in the mid-19th century. ...Literature and Social Reality Socialist Realism, representing socialist ideologies, was an art movement that represented social and political contemporary life in the 1930s, from a left-wing standpoint. Even without the invention of words and language, literature was already manifested in the earliest human civilizations. [1], Social realist photography draws from the documentary traditions of the late 19th century, such as the work of Jacob A. Riis, and Maksim Dmitriyev. Martin Luther King Jnr, Gandhi, Jesus, Malcolm X, Pope John II, The Dalai Lama, St Francis of Assisi and even John Lennon all believed that social rights and being equal, no matter who you are, is one of the most important things in the world to conquer. Speculative fiction is combination of several different genres of literature, such as mystery, science fiction, historical fiction and fantasy. Social Realism became an important art movement during the Great Depression in the United States in the 1930s. The author Mark Twain created one of the world’s best children’s classic books in 1885. 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