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The Native American literary tradition contain oral tradition, folktales, creation stories and other myths that survive in the traditions. These stories were told and retold by generations of storytellers across the many tribes, and the stories vary in the telling not just from storyteller to storyteller and tribe to tribe, but even across multiple tellings by the same narrator.

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{Zitkála-Šá, Charles Eastman (Native Authors)}, James Welch, Paula Gunn Allen, Eden Robinson and Sherman Alexie!

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"Living In Two Worlds" is a book made by Charles Eastman. in the book, it talks about his story on how he embraced his traditional culture!

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as English colonies were established in the 1700s, topics of literature among colonists reflected their historical context.

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John Smith, Thomas Morton, Increase Mather, and Roger Williams

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"The Tenth Muse Sprung Up In America"(likely the first collection of poetry written about America), "New English Canon".(A harsh critique of the Puritan customs and power structure.

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in the years surrounding the American Revolution, literature likewise shifted to encompass the patriotic spirit that drove the nation toward independence. many stories were told by a few public writers and etc.

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Thomas Paine + William Hill Brown

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The Age of Reason, The Power of Sympathy (talking about dangers of seduction, advocating for rational thinking and moral education of women).

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American Gothic literature follows on dark themes from the nation’s historical and contemporary challenges. The early Gothic writers drew on frontier anxiety and fear of the unknown.

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Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, William Faulkner, and Stephen King

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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (most famous example), contemporary works, + own experiences

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romantic writers explored themes of individualism, intuitive perception and the inherent goodness of the natural world. The romantic era began in Europe in the eighteenth century, but it was later spread in America around 1820.

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Nathaniel Hawthorne, Moby Dick, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, + Thoreau’s Walden

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most books back then were intellectual movement, transcendentalism, built on the belief in the inherent goodness of people, and the idea that self-reliance, transcending the corrupting influence of society.

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American literature was marked to portray realistic things as they are, without supernatural or speculative elements. its aslo marked as deep skepticism, given its historical content.

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Mark Twain, John Steinbeck, Frank Norris, Stephen Crane, Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein and F. Scott Fitzgerald

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Open Boat, + The Lost Generation

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literature advanced to American modernism from the same trend as realism. the grief and sense of directionless that this generation felt in the wake of World War One inspired modernist works, but they also featured themes of hope because people had the ability to change their circumstances

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John Updike

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explosion of postmodernist themes such as unreliable narrators, internal monologue and temporal distortion. Contemporary writers have used literature to critique American culture, find connections across time and place and explore themes such as pluralism, relativism and self-consciousness.