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1865-1900. incorporates a difficult time in American history, with the Civil War, industrialization, Reconstruction, urbanization, and more. They were presenting a more realistic view of life in their works of literature. Writers from that period include: Henry Adams, Horatio Alger, Frank Baum, Edward Bellamy, Kate Chopin, and others. In American literature, famous writers like Charles W. Chesnutt, Stephen Crane, Henry James, Mark Twain, and Edith Wharton.
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Realism
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Movement in American literature that took place in New York City during the 1920s and 30s. Writers included Countee Cullen, W.E.B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, James Weldon Johnson, Claude McKay, and Jean Tommer.
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Harlem Renaissance
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Involves the attempt to make meaning in a chaotic world. Sartre argued, "man makes himself."
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Existentialism
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