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    American literature has evolved from oral Native American traditions to internationally acclaimed contemporary works. It began with narratives written by early English colonists and Puritan religious works seeking to transform colonists and colonized. The American Revolution gave rise to patriotic poems, pamphlets, and plays. Major 19th century literary movements like transcendentalism and romanticism were represented by Thoreau, Emerson, Poe, Whitman, and Hawthorne. The Civil War era saw works both supporting and opposing slavery. Realism emerged in the works of Twain, James, and Wharton. Modernist poets like Dickinson, Pound, and Cummings revolutionized poetry. The 1960s saw novelists depict contemporary American life while

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    AMERICAN

    LITERATUR
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    American Literature – one of the
    superpowers of our present global community

    - has established an identity that is second to


    none from oral tradition of the Native
    Americans to internationally acclaimed works
    in contemporary times.
    North America – has more than 500 Native
    American tribal culture.
    - has a variety of literature attributed by the
    fact that each tribe has its own literature

    Native American cultures – worshipped


    sacred people, deities, animals and even
    plants.
    Native American – has different councils,
    theocracies and early forms of democracies
    when it comes to political and social orders.

    Precolonial American literature – has the


    forms of creation stories, legends, songs,
    tales, riddles, proverbs, fairy tales and epics.
    John Winthrop, William Bradford and
    Captain John Smith – had written notable
    texts (narratives) during the coming of the
    English colonists

    Puritanism – a religious movement that


    aimed to lead individuals to the light of God’s
    salvation
    Puritan works – served to transform the
    colonized and to ensure that the colonizers
    themselves would walk the right path.
    Popular names of Puritan literature –
    Thomas Hooker, Jonathan Edwards, Roger
    Williams, Edward Johnson, Cotton Mather,
    Edward Taylor, Anne Bradstreet, Michael
    Wigglesworth
    American Revolution – brought about the
    rise of intellectuals who molded the identity of
    the new country.
    Philip Freneau – pioneer of American lyrical
    poetry
    Thomas Paine – effective in using the
    pamphlet
    Francis Hopkinson – a prominent polemicist
    Founding Fathers of America – Benjamin
    Franklin, Alexander Hamilton and Thomas
    Jefferson
    18 century – the rise of theater scenes and
    th

    novels
    William Dunlap and Royall Tyler – wrote
    plays that were infused with theme of love for
    their newly liberated nation.
    William Hill Brown and Charles Brockden
    Brown – earliest American novelists
    Washington Irving – wrote the story “Rip Van
    Winkle”
    James Fenimore Cooper – wrote the novel
    “The Last of the Mohicans”
    Irving and Copper – first Americans who won
    critical acclaim for the European literary scene
    19 century – surge of the transcendentalism
    th

    and romanticism

    Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller and


    Ralph Waldo Emerson – produced works of
    transcendentalist views of social reformation
    and moral excellence
    Writers who brought American flavor to
    the Romantic Movement that originated in
    Europe

    1. Edgar Allan Poe


    2. Walt Whitman
    3. Nathaniel Hawthorne
    4. Herman Melville
    Civil War – caused division and tension then
    led to realistic and passionate works
    Uncle Tom’s Cabin – written by Harriet
    Beecher Stowe
    - anti-slavery
    The Sword and the Distaff – William
    Gilmore Simm
    - pro-slavery
    Writers whose works transcended regional
    confines

    1. Mark Twain
    2. Bret Harte
    3. George W. Cable
    4. Henry Timrod
    19 century – American fiction went from the
    th

    realism of William Dean Howells to the


    psychological mastery of Henry James and
    Edith Wharton
    Emily Dickinson – revolutionized poetry in
    the early 20 century
    th

    Ezra Pound and E. E. Cummings –


    continued to push this genre
    Other powerful Poets
    1. Robert Frost
    2. Carl Sandburg

    Eugene O’neill – led the way for writers of


    drama
    - followed by Arthur Miller, Tennesee
    Williams, Maxwell Anderson and Phillip
    Barry
    Fictionists from the idea of Marxian social
    theory and the new psychology

    1. Ernest Hemingway
    2. John Steinbeck
    3. F. Scott Fritzgerald
    4. Thomas Wolfe
    Most exceptional African-American Writers
    1. Langston Hughes
    2. Paul Lawrence Dunbar
    3. Countee Cullen

    20 century – literary criticism in America


    th
    Ezra Pound – largely influenced the criticism
    movement

    Pioneered the highly analytical study of


    different genres
    1. Edmund Wilson
    2. Allen Tate
    3. Robert Penn Warren
    4. Malcolm Cowley
    1960s and 70s – novelists depicted the hollow,
    tense life of contemporary American that they
    know

    - some of the writers were Saul Bellow,


    Hortense Calisher, John Updike, William
    Burroughs and Joyce Caril Oates
    Poets and Leaders of the beat generation
    1. Lawrence Ferlinghetti
    2. Gregory Corso
    3. Allen Ginsberg
    Writers who ably depicted by the Presidential
    elections and Vietnam War
    4. Truman Capote
    5. James Michener
    6. Don DeLillo
    7. Peter Taylor
    African-American writers in the 80s and 90s
    1. Tony Marrison
    2. Alice Walker
    Latino writers
    3. Sandra Cisneros
    4. Rudolfo Anaya
    Native American writers
    5. Louise Erdrich
    6. N. Scott Momaday

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