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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.

Aliases (1)

American literary canon ×1

Statements (99)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	literature → national literature →
countryOfOrigin	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 → 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 → 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 (10)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Book I → My Summer in a Garden → Sandy → The Pearl →	literaryMovement
Harriet Beecher Stowe → Mark Twain →	movement
Ichabod Crane →	culturalOrigin
New England Yankee →	hasNotableRepresentationIn
Norman Mailer →	notableFor
Injun Joe ("American literary canon") →	partOf