American literature

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literature national literature

American literature is the body of written works produced in the United States and its preceding colonies, reflecting the nation’s evolving history, culture, and diverse voices across genres and periods.

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All labels observed (5)

Label	Occurrences
American literature canonical	18
American literary canon	2
American literary history	2
American literature canon	1
American short story tradition	1

Statements (99)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	literature ⓘ national literature ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
hasGenre	autobiography ⓘ detective fiction ⓘ drama ⓘ essay ⓘ fantasy ⓘ gothic fiction ⓘ modernist fiction ⓘ novel ⓘ poetry ⓘ political writing ⓘ postmodern fiction ⓘ realist fiction ⓘ regionalist fiction ⓘ science fiction ⓘ sermon ⓘ short story ⓘ slave narrative ⓘ
hasInfluenceOn	world literature ⓘ
hasMovement	Black Arts Movement ⓘ Chicano literature ⓘ Feminist literature ⓘ LGBT literature ⓘ Lost Generation ⓘ Minimalism ⓘ Native American Renaissance ⓘ Regionalism ⓘ Southern Gothic ⓘ Transcendentalism ⓘ
hasNotableAuthor	Don DeLillo ⓘ Edgar Allan Poe ⓘ Emily Dickinson ⓘ Ernest Hemingway ⓘ F. Scott Fitzgerald ⓘ Flannery O'Connor ⓘ Harriet Beecher Stowe ⓘ Henry David Thoreau ⓘ Henry James ⓘ Herman Melville ⓘ Jack London ⓘ James Baldwin ⓘ Jhumpa Lahiri ⓘ John Steinbeck ⓘ Kate Chopin ⓘ Langston Hughes ⓘ Louisa May Alcott ⓘ Mark Twain ⓘ Maxine Hong Kingston ⓘ Nathaniel Hawthorne ⓘ Ralph Waldo Emerson ⓘ Stephen Crane ⓘ Sylvia Plath ⓘ T. S. Eliot ⓘ Thomas Pynchon ⓘ Toni Morrison ⓘ Walt Whitman ⓘ Willa Cather ⓘ William Faulkner ⓘ Zora Neale Hurston ⓘ
hasNotableWork	Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ⓘ Beloved ⓘ Leaves of Grass ⓘ Moby-Dick ⓘ On the Road ⓘ The Catcher in the Rye ⓘ The Grapes of Wrath ⓘ The Great Gatsby ⓘ The Scarlet Letter ⓘ The Sound and the Fury ⓘ Their Eyes Were Watching God ⓘ
hasPeriod	American Renaissance ⓘ Beat Generation ⓘ Colonial period ⓘ Contemporary period ⓘ Early national period ⓘ Harlem Renaissance ⓘ Modernism ⓘ Realism ⓘ surface form: Naturalism Postmodernism ⓘ Realism ⓘ Revolutionary period ⓘ Romanticism ⓘ
hasPrecursorRegion	Thirteen Colonies ⓘ
includesLanguage	African American Vernacular English ⓘ French ⓘ Indigenous languages of the Americas ⓘ Spanish ⓘ
isInfluencedBy	British literature ⓘ Enlightenment thought ⓘ Romanticism ⓘ surface form: European Romanticism Puritan theology ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
reflects	American culture ⓘ American history ⓘ immigrant experiences in the United States ⓘ racial diversity in the United States ⓘ regional identities in the United States ⓘ

Referenced by (24)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Mark Twain → movement → American literature ⓘ

Harriet Beecher Stowe → movement → American literature ⓘ

Ichabod Crane → culturalOrigin → American literature ⓘ

My Summer in a Garden → literaryMovement → American literature ⓘ

Injun Joe → partOf → American literature ⓘ

this entity surface form: American literary canon

Book I → literaryMovement → American literature ⓘ

Sandy → literaryMovement → American literature ⓘ

New England Yankee → hasNotableRepresentationIn → American literature ⓘ

Mailer → notableFor → American literature ⓘ

subject surface form: Norman Mailer

The Pearl → literaryMovement → American literature ⓘ

Clement Clarke Moore → describedBySource → American literature ⓘ

this entity surface form: American literary history

Benito Cereno → includedIn → American literature ⓘ

this entity surface form: American literature canon

New England Brahmin → influencedDomain → American literature ⓘ

Dirk Peters → partOf → American literature ⓘ

this entity surface form: American literary canon

Rusty Trawler → hasGenreContext → American literature ⓘ

Henry Holt → associatedWith → American literature ⓘ

The Ambitious Guest → partOf → American literature ⓘ

this entity surface form: American short story tradition

The Time of Her Time → literaryMovement → American literature ⓘ

Fires: Essays, Poems, Stories → literaryGenre → American literature ⓘ

Pictures of the Gone World → partOf → American literature ⓘ

Vern Sneider → fieldOfWork → American literature ⓘ

Jim Nolan → partOf → American literature ⓘ

Shadow and Act → mainSubject → American literature ⓘ

Zelda → partOf → American literature ⓘ

subject surface form: Zelda Fitzgerald

this entity surface form: American literary history