your Final Essay will be a 6-10-page comprehensive research project aimed at defining “American Literature.” Choose three or four selections from our readings this semester and use them to offer your own definition of American Literature. What are some of the hallmarks of American Literature? How are your selections similar or different? How do your selections challenge or reaffirm what it means to be American?Use five secondarysources to relate to your primary sources.
Note” PLSEAS FOR MY PRIMARY SOURCES THE PROFESSOR WANT US TO CHOSE 3 OR 4 WHICH ARE RELATED TO COME OUT WITH THE DEFINATION OF AMERICAN LITRATURE SO YOU SHOULD CHOOSE AND LET ME KNOW THE ONES YOU USED”
Washington, T. Booker “Up from Slavery”The Norton Anthology of American Literature,1865 to present. shorter 9th ed, e-book, edited by Julia Redhead W.W. Norton & Company, 2017.pp 701-709. (735 overall page)
Bois, Du W.E.B from “The Souls of Black Folk”The Norton Anthology of American Literature,1865 to present. shorter 9th ed, e-book, edited by Julia Redhead W.W. Norton & Company, 2017.pp 920-921. (954 overall page)
Kerouac, Jack. “on the road” The Norton Anthology of American Literature,1865 to present. shorter 9th ed, e-book, edited by Julia Redhead W.W. Norton & Company, 2017.pp. 333 -342 (2656 overall page)
Sandburg, Carl. “Chicago” The Norton Anthology of American Literature, 1865 to present. shorter 9th ed, e-book, edited by Julia Redhead W.W. Norton & Company,2017. pp.267-268. (1553 overall page)
Silko, Leslie Marmon. “Lullaby”The Norton Anthology of American Literature,1865 to present. shorter 9th ed, e-book, edited by Julia Redhead W.W. Norton & Company,2017. pp. 1042-1048. ( 3365 overall page )
I ALREADY SEND YOU EACH SECONDRY SOURCE READING
Chute, Hillary. “The Popularity of Postmodernism.” Twentieth Century Literature, vol. 57, no. 3, 2011, pp. 354-IV. ProQuest, https://ezproxy.pgcc.edu/login?url=https://search-proquest-com.ezproxy.pgcc.edu/docview/1395315697?accountid=13315.
Nowrouzi, Tayebeh, et al. “In search of equality: a dream deferred for African Americans in A Raisin in the Sun.” Theory and Practice in Language Studies, vol. 5, no. 11, 2015, p. 2269+. Gale Literature Resource Center, https://link-gale-com.ezproxy.pgcc.edu/apps/doc/A446637382/GLS?u=pgcc_main&sid=GLS&xid=47f8f9be. Accessed 29 July 2020.
Shewry, Teresa. “States of Suspense: The Nuclear Age, Postmodernism and United States Fiction and Prose.” Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 57, no. 4, 2011, pp. 764-766. ProQuest, https://ezproxy.pgcc.edu/login?url=https://search-proquest-com.ezproxy.pgcc.edu/docview/918227676?accountid=13315
Sauri, Emilio. “Cognitive mapping, then and now: postmodernism, indecision, and American literary globalism.” Twentieth Century Literature, vol. 57, no. 3-4, 2011, p. 472+. Gale Literature Resource Center, https://link-gale-com.ezproxy.pgcc.edu/apps/doc/A301872330/GLS?u=pgcc_main&sid=GLS&xid=5f4
Winner, Kathryn. “Visions of Cody and Media: Jack Kerouac as Late Modernist.” Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 43, no. 1, 2019, pp. 132-149. ProQuest, https://ezproxy.pgcc.edu/login?url=https://search-proquest-com.ezproxy.pgcc.edu/docview/2330962042?accountid=13315, doi: http://dx.doi.org.ezproxy.pgcc.edu/10.2979/jmodelite.43.1.08
My final essay idea will focus on the topic of American literature periods where I will narrow down to the three important periods which I am already familiar with. The first period will be Realism and Naturalism, where I will use two poems from Emily Dickinson as my reference. I will also take a closer look at The Modernist Period by looking at two pieces of literature: Modernist Manifestos and another from Carl Sandburg. In addition to the two periods, I will examine The Contemporary Period by referring jointly to Jack Kerouac’s novel and Leslie Marmon Silko’s piece of literature work. After taking a closer look at the American literature periods, I will further study the style used and the issues addressed within each period, respectively, with respect to what we have already studied.
The list of the literary work selected for my study aims at defining the American literature in relation to time and environment. American literature can be described as ever-changing and time-bound in relation to the environment surrounding it. The American literature characteristic is that it casts the American tradition and has a beam of humor, which is well represented in the piece of writing I intend to use in my study. My selection reaffirms that being an American means that a person is aware of what is happening around and writing about it as a way of addressing it.
NOTE THIS WAS THE ESSAY OUTLINE YOU DID BUT I HAVE CHANGED SOME POEM JUST 2 THE EMILY DICKSON AND MANIFESTO I REPLACED IT WITH WASHINGTON AND DU BOIS.