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    African American literature is the creation and outward manifestation of the African American experience living in America, described through writing. African American’s used writing as a means to communicate their lives and struggles. The Blacks wanted their stories to be heard across the world. Even the stories that the oppressors wished would stay on the hush. To truly understand African American lit in the states and how it helped mold modern American culture, we must take a glimpse into…

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    Final Paper American Literature E&C 120 Instructor - Arto Vaun Student - Gayane Aramyan Topic - “Slavery is not the only restriction of fundamental human rights, but also consequences of socio-economic, cultural situations.” When we hear the word slavery, the first famous instance comes to our mind is a history of American black slavery. However, slavery has many instances and examples, as nowadays many people are still victims of slavery, and the practices are not only unique to American…

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    In the centuries that slavery existed there it was known for its lasting effect on American literature. It shows in works all around the world. An example is that of the spiritual “Go Down, Moses” comparing Harriet Tubman to a religious figure; “Go down, Moses, Way down in Egypt land Tell old Pharaoh To let my people go. When Israel was in Egypt…

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    Early in American Literature, a lot of the writers were Puritans and based their texts mostly on God. They arrived here in America, wanting to spread their “Pure” look of the Bible and God. They read the Bible and live their lived strictly and had many laws that aligned with the bible. This life-style had its downsides and some often branched off and “Rebelled” against it through a plethora of ways, including writing. Puritans were part of an important role in Literature today, in fact, In the…

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    SER for American Writers: Romantics, Transcendentalists, and Dark Romantics and Slaves Now well into the nineteenth century, truly American literature was beginning to take its hold on society. Just as America changed drastically since its initial formation, literature within America also adapted wildly from its debut. The writing in America began to leave the constant tradition of nonfiction journal entries, and it adapted into the fiction stories and tales that are more familiar in today’s…

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    The brutality that African American endured is just terrifying. All they wanted was to live in peace and freedom has taken so many lives. Denial is one of the recommendations that Verna talked about and how we need real people. People need to stop pretending that their not biases. As she explains how being bias is how we are about to associate positive in White people and negative in Black and this in turn results in being biases preferring to be around a White person. Being that a face of a…

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    Does African-American Literature Exist? African-American literature can be described in many different ways. According to Gibson, African-American literature should: empower the black community, convey the writer’s thoughts and meaning, and may or may not contain a political message (Gibson). However, in Warren’s piece, “Does African-American Literature Exist?” Warren questions whether there can be any new pieces of African-American Literature. Warren describes African-American literature as…

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    although historical are harrowing accounts of experiences. Progressing onto the Harlem Renaissance, the contribution of women authors began to change the landscape of literature in general markedly. However, the impact on African American literature was immense as the Harlem Renaissance became its own specific subset of American literature and changed the style, content, and context of what exist in a number of genres. Fast forward to today and authors such as Zane, who has created an explosion…

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    Ethnicity/Race Two factors that are similar to each other but different are race and ethnicity. The two ethnicities that were discussed a lot in the literature was Hispanics and African Americans. Both ethnicity’s tend to have a lower number of alcohol abuse than other ethnicities. However those who do qualify as an individual with an alcohol abuse issue have higher consumption rates and higher odds for participating in binge drinking. Individually Hispanics have higher cirrhosis death rates. It…

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    In American literature and culture, identity is a major theme from Puritanism to Postmodernism. In Modernism and Postmodernism, the discourse on identity takes on more direct and explicit social, ethnic, racial and political overtones (Michaels, 1995). Up until Modernism, identity is discussed generally within the context of the melting-pot formula: i.e. that there is one American self (predominantly male, white, and Anglo-Saxon) within which Americans – from all origins, races, cultures, and…

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