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Fu Li Department of Foreign Languages HIT at Harbin What is literature? America Literature American literature mainly refers to literature produced in American English by the people living in the United States. It is conventional to define American literature as literature produced in American English by American citizens. Basic Qualities Independent Individualistic Critical Innovative Humorous Why Read Literature? For pleasure For relaxation For knowledge For artistic appreciation To confront experience Approaches Analytical approach Thematic approach Historical approach Native American Literature Background Three Periods Traditional Literature Transitional Literature Modern Literature Stories, Folktales songs Alanson Skinner’s Folklore of the Menomini Indians (1915) William Jones’s Kickpoo Tales (1915) Paul Radin’s The Trickster (1069) Natalie Curtis’s The Indian Book (1970) Three Periods Traditional Literature Transitional Literature Modern Literature Translation John G. Neihardt’, Black Elk Speaks (1932); John Joseph Mathews’s Wah’kon-tah: The Osage and the White Man’s Road (1932); John Deer and Richard Erodes’s Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions (1972). Three Periods Traditional Literature Transitional Literature Modern Literature Novels, Short Stories Poetry Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins Charles Alexander Eastman Chona John Rollin Ridge Emily P. Johnson Alexander Lawrence Rosey Literature of Colonial Settlements Wrote to attract new colonists Wrote to show God’s grace and favor toward them Wrote to record experiences Questions for Contemplation Puritanism Why the early American literature neither American nor literature? What do you know about Benjamin Franklin? ? History of American Literature Literal meaning As an Art Source Significance ? Columbus James Welch N.Scott Momaday Louise Erdrich Leslie Silko Gerald Vizenor Russell Bates