 The somewhat malleable term of contemporary literature is usually applied with a post-1960 cut off point.Although these terms (modern, contemporary and postmodern) are most applicable to Western literary history, the rise of the globalization has allowed European literary ideas to spread into non-Western cultures fairly rapidly, so that Asian and African literatures can be included into these divisions with only minor qualifications.And in some ways, such as in Postcolonial literature, writers from non-Western cultures were on the forefront of literary development.