American Literature

American Literature

Introduction

The literature produced in the part of America known as the United States did not begin as an independent literature. England bestowed on the earliest settlers the English language, books, and modes of thought. England had an established literature long before the first permanent settlement across the Atlantic was considered. Shakespeare, for example, had died only four years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth.

The socio-historical context relations are inseparable between class, race and gender issues, thus preventing certain Western concepts previously considered base. African-American authors such as Alice Walker militant Civil Rights Movement (1960) bring in their literary works a new insight into the living conditions of women Black raising the question of these suffer double discrimination, first related the genus and the second with respect to race. And according to Bell Hooks (1992) that the power man uses to dominate the woman, who is not only the privilege of the upper class white men, is also of all men in American society, regardless race or class. For blacks embody the values ??of sexist white, keeping black women in a condition, subordinate and secondary. In the work African-American "The Color Purple" (1986), Walker portrays the path of a woman black, in the southern United States, oppressed and silenced by a racist and sexist society, but who finds friendship and solidarity of other women the strength to overcome and become agent of its own destiny

Literature of the Colonial Period

The literature of colonial period has a much more significance as history than as expositive expression. It might be unreasonable to judge of the savvy force of the English homesteaders in America by the books that they composed; those "stern men with domains in their brains" had more pressing work to do than the making of books. The predominant pioneers, without a ...