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What is American Literature? - Exemplified by Some of Its Greatest WritersAmerican literature has covered all kinds of subjects and genres. The one thing that remains the same is that it has always been a struggle to forge a truly "American" identity.
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The Interacting Elements that Characterize American LiteratureThis paper presents a brief overview of American literature up to 1865.
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Anne Bradstreet Defies Conventions and Defends Women in Early American LiteratureDespite her rigid Puritan background, Anne Bradstreet often wrote on subjects in order to encourage those who felt oppressed by those beliefs and make a significant impact on establishing early American literature as a woman writer.
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American Literature - Naturalist and Realist FictionA paper about the Naturalism sub-genre of American Realistic literature. Focuses on Frank Norris' short story "A Deal in Wheat" and mentions Henry James' "The Art of Fiction" essay. Written in April 2005 for a literature course during my freshman year of college.
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The Best of African American Literature: 5 Great BooksHere are my top 5 recommendations in the genre of African American literature.
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American Literature View of Oppressed Womensome examples of oppressed women in American literature and changing views over the generations
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Phillis Wheatley: The Mother of African American LiteratureThis article tells the story of the mother of African American literature. -
Free Printables for American Literature Lesson and Activitieslinks and descriptions of sites online, offering free activities, printables, games, lesson plans and blogs for American literature teachers, homeschoolers, etc. -
Slavery, Freedom and African-American LiteratureThe concept of freedom, taken for granted by many, was always highly treasured by the African-Americans who had to endure the struggle of release from slavery. This is reflected in much of the classic African-American literaure.
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Autobiographical Literature of Japanese-American Women in World War II Internment CampsThough Japanese women are traditionally submissive and modest, the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II made these women rise above their traditional roles, becoming stronger and more American in the process.
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Oratorical Literature in Native American WritingA analysis of the importance of the oratorical tradition in Native American culture and the effect on their writing vs. Euro-American literature.
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African American Perspective: History and RetrospectiveAs conceptualizations of multicultural literature evolve and diversify, it is important to revisit its historical foundation-
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Celebrating Black History Month with 10 Great African American History BooksA review of 10 books famous for their contribution to the education of African American History.
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Alice Walker Continues African-American Women's Writing TraditionFollowing the development of the African-American woman through writers such as Harriet A. Jacobs, Harriet E. Wilson, and Frances E.W. Harper, Alice Walker continues the tradition of strong women voices.
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Lesson Plans for American Nobel Prize for Literature LaureatesEver been to Barnes and Noble and observed the mural of famous authors over the coffee shop? Who are these literary figures? Many of them are winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Use this list to plan literature lessons. -
Exploring Native American FolkloreThe Native American culture is rich with history, but it is vanishing. Their prose and stories are used to keep their history alive.
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How to Study for the Analyzing and Interpreting Literature CLEPFree and low cost resources to help you study for the Analyzing and Interpreting Literature CLEP Test.
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Identity, Transition, and Assimilation in American SocietyIntegration and acculuration in a new society is never easy. In historial, American narratives, the American immigrant transitions in his or her passage of life and develops an inextricable twoness of identity.
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Is the African American Language a Legitimate Language for Scholarship?This article takes a look at four pioneering authors/researchers paving the way for scholarship of AAL. All of the authors conclude that AAL should be further studied and included in the American Education System as a secondary language to SAE.
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The New Negro Renaissance: African American Culture Between Slavery and the Civil Rights MovementThe literary and artistic explosion that occurred in black America from roughly 1910 to 1940 is often referred to as the "Harlem Renaissance." Creative African American literature and art blossomed from all over the country.
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William Bradford and Benjamin Franklin, Two Early American Literary PioneersEarly American literature was much like the early American settlers, with many different ideas and many changes over a short period of time.
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Notable African American AuthorsAfrican Americans have contributed to American literature through fiction, non-fiction, poetry and drama since the 1700s. Here are just some of the many notable contributors.
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The Best Classes in African American StudiesAfrican-American studies can be one of the best programs that a college-bound individual may want to consider when selecting a major.
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Best Books and Web Sites for Learning About African American HistoryThis paper gives resources to those wanting to learn about African American History. It also includes additional resources for futher study.
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American Icons on the Obligations of SuccessThe obligations of success have been explored by such prominent American writers as Michael Lind, Benjamin Franklin, Langston Hughes, William Dean Howells, and Edith Wharton.
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NORMAN MAILER, HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMP of POST-WAR AMERICAN LETTERS, DEAD at 84Norman Mailer, the most influential writer of the post-World War II period, died on November 10, 2007 at the age of 84. Mailer's trailblazing writing created the "New Journalism" that helped undermine the novel as the premier mode of authorial expression in the 20th Century. -
The American Literary RenaissanceThis research covers the American Renaissance, a time frame from the early 1840s when a specifically American way of writing was formulated.
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American Women with Stories from the Prairie and from Good Times in the City Are Fun to ReadA paperback book stuffed full of good short stories helps me imagine myself in a different life. When I come back down to earth I appreciate all I have a lot more, too. -
California Writers - Literature by RegionA short list of California writers who should be read.
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Message from Montie: My Christmas List from an African-American PerspectiveOf course we all want our own personal gifts on Christmas, but if I could get even one of these seven put in action, I wouldn't need anymore gifts. I'd be content with these alone. -
Life is Beautiful, and so is LiteratureThis paper discovers the beauty in the works of Ernest Hemingway, Toni Cade Bambera, and Toni Morrison.
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Fantastic Pairing for a Literature Class--Tim O'Brien and Bao NinhI have given a summary of how Tim O'Brien and Bao Ninh would be a great literature pairing for a study of the Vietnam War.
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Rip Van Winkle and the American ElementsRip Van Winkle tells the story of how America has been changed by the revolution. Every nook and cranny within Washington Irving's most well-known work contains personification of the newly minted United States of America.
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The African American CultureThe African American music and dance, speech and strong personality carry the African American culture to play a pivotal role in their rich history, powerful literature, and political movements that revealed around the world.
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The Oppressions and the Multiple Obligations of the African American WomanChallenges facing the African American woman in today's society, and women who have overcome them.
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Rip Van Winkle: Irving's American Fairy Tale"Rip Van Winkle" is an attempt to craft an American folk tale and to comment on European cultural superiority.
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From Hurston To Morrison: Prolonged Cultural Assumptions of African-American WomenDespite being separated by more than 60 years, authors Zora Neale Hurston and Toni Morrison present their female characters in submissive and objectified roles to highlight the oppression that African-American women face even in the twenty-first century. -
Thanksgiving, Native American Lesson Plans from Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George SpeareMulti-sensory, hands-on, cross-curricular unit on American history, Native Americans, settlers using the book Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare. -
The Theme Of Secrets In Asian-American LiteratureA research paper on the theme of secrets in Asian-American Literature
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Gender and Mythological Criticism in Native American LiteratureAn examination of Native American literature such as "The Rez Sisters".
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