Literature
"One of the timeless phrases with which the United States -- its history, its perspective, its reality -- is identified is " e pluribus unum, " or, "from many, one." These words describe both how the United States and its literature have evolved over the centuries -- through the coming together of many traditions to form a nation and a literature that are different from the ones that have existed a century, a decade, even a year before.
All of U.S. literature is multicultural, multiethnic, multiracial from precolonial days to the present. At one moment in history or another, one grouping may have defined multiculturalism, in that timeframe, such as the European cultures that flowed into the United States 100 years ago, and those of Asia and Latin America in the year 2000.
Today, American literature is rich in newer traditions -- and some that have been transformed. Venues, sensibilities, themes have changed as well. In considering developments within Arab American, Asian American, Black American, Hispanic American and Native American writing, this journal introduces a global audience to the continuously evolving multicultural literature in our day, and to a selection of gifted creative talents, as the process of renewal continues in U.S. literature in the new century."
General Sites
- Outline of American Literature
- American Authors - Resources from Gonzaga University
- 18th, 19th, 20th Century American Literature - From Indiana University
- Online Literary Criticism Collection - From Internet Public Library
- Poetry and Literature Center - At the Library of Congress
- America.gov/books
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Individual Authors - Classics
- The Don DeLillo Society
- The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson
- William Faulkner
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Transcendentalists Web Site
- The Hemingway Resource Center
- The Henry James Scholar's Guide to Web Sites
- The Life and Works of Herman Melville
- Thoreau Reader
- The Papers of John Dos Passos
- The Edgar Allen Poe Society
- Mark Twain - Academic Info
- The Edith Wharton Society
- The Walt Whitman Archive