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How did WWI And WWII affect American lit?
After the wars American literature became more deep. people had began wriiting their feelings and thoughts. American literature was becoming increasingly more through out everywhere.The literature that emerges from the experience of World War II is different from that of WWI. people and children began to write more and more after the wars. african american also began to write more after these wars their freedom had become a little better.african americans had also started hetting their books published as them as authors. Many things had began to change and til american lit goes away itll never stop changing

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With greater possibilities for artistic self-determination, the writers of the Harlem Renaissance produced a sizable body of work, often exploring such themes as alienation and marginality. Several writers, including Hughes, Hurston, Larsen, and Toomer relied particularly on the rich folk tradition (oral culture, folktales, black dialect, jazz and blues composition) to create unique literary forms. Other writers, such as Cullen, McKay and Helene Johnson wrote within more conventional literary genres as a way to capture what they saw as the growing urbanity and sophistication of African Americans. The literature of the Harlem Renaissance, therefore, reflects the multiple ways that black experience in America was perceived and expressed in the first decades of the twentieth century.

over the years american lit has changed and african american have helped change this

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It has been argued that the Harlem Renaissance, or the New Negro Movement, is the defining moment in African American literature because of an unprecedented outburst of creative activity among black writers. The importance of this movement to African American literary art lies in the efforts of its writers to exalt the heritage of African Americans and to use their unique culture as a means toward re-defining African American literary expression.

No one really knows when african american lit actually started. but everyone thinks at this one time is when all the African Americans began there wriiting and they all started ghetting published. African americans have wrote from their herttaige and past. Their amazing world inspires their writting idead and creative arts

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The first work published in the Puritan colonies was the Bay Psalm Book (1640), and the whole effort of the divines who wrote furiously to set forth their views—among them Roger Williams and Thomas Hooker —was to defend and promote visions of the religious state. They set forth their visions—in effect the first formulation of the concept of national destiny—in a series of impassioned histories and jeremiads from Edward Johnson 's Wonder-Working Providence (1654) to Cotton Mather 's epic Magnalia Christi Americana (1702).-----
The years immediately after World War I brought a highly vocal rebellion against established social, sexual, and aesthetic conventions and a vigorous attempt to establish new values. Young artists flocked to Greenwich Village, Chicago, and San Francisco, determined to protest and intent on making a new art. Others went to Europe, living mostly in Paris as expatriates. They willingly accepted the name given them by Gertrude Stein : the lost generation. Out of their disillusion and rejection, the writers built a new literature, impressive in the glittering 1920s and the years that followed.

Romantic clichés were abandoned for extreme realism or for complex symbolism and created myth. Language grew so frank that there were bitter quarrels over censorship, as in the troubles about James Branch Cabell 's Jurgen (1919) and—much more notably—Henry Miller 's Tropic of Cancer (1931). The influences of new psychology and of Marxian social theory were also very strong. Out of this highly active boiling of new ideas and new forms came writers of recognizable stature in the world, among them Ernest Hemingway , F. Scott Fitzgerald , William Faulkner , Thomas Wolfe , John Dos Passos , John Steinbeck , and E. E. Cummings .

over the years from the 1600's until 1920 a dramatic change had come about in literature thing got put in literature and thing got taken out, new things were written and some old things had been done away with and literature will still be changing long after now.

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In literature, Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) developed an analogue to modern art. A resident of Paris and an art collector (she and her brother Leo purchased works of the artists Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Pablo Picasso, and many others), Stein once explained that she and Picasso were doing the same thing, he in art and she in writing. Using simple, concrete words as counters, she developed an abstract, experimental prose poetry. The childlike quality of Stein's simple vocabulary recalls the bright, primary colors of modern art, while her repetitions echo the repeated shapes of abstract visual compositions. By dislocating grammar and punctuation, she achieved new "abstract" meanings as in her influential collection Tender Buttons (1914), which views objects from different angles, as in a cubist painting:
---- Tells about how they started developing poetry and abstract paintings. This may have seemed childish but it had a point in their life and now is a big part of our world today.

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Nathaniel Hawthorne a fifth-generation American of English descent, was born in Salem, Massachusetts, a wealthy seaport north of Boston that specialized in East India trade.

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this a story written in 1911 by edith wharton who was awritter during the moderns american literature.

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We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too. . . . If colored people are pleased we are glad. If they are not, their displeasure doesn't matter either. We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves." (from Langston Hughes, "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain")

__ Saying that people will express themselves no mater what anyone thinks or says about them. No matter how they look and no mater how they sound. That you should make your mark in life by being yourself and only you.

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This is a picture of Edna St. Vincent Millay she published her first book of poetry in 1923. She also won Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1937.








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Prelimiary links and descriptions

http://iipdigital.usembassy.gov/st/english/publication/2008/05/20080512223814eaifas0.210766.html#axzz1ldMnN0Jv
   http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/American_literature.aspx
http://www.jcu.edu/harlem/Literature/Page_1.htm
http://answers.encyclopedia.com/question/role-did-wwi-play-american-literature-79510.html

what i want to know about my topic

i would learn to love everything but as we all know that's impossible.
1.how did WWI affect American lit.
2. what impact did the Harlem Renaissance have during this time?
3. Who was most popular during this time
4. How did it change.
5. What type of new things came about during this time.
6. Who was discovered at this time.

What I already know about my topic

Hmm mainly I know NOTHING!!! I know that American literature goes way past the civilnwar and all them old times. I have many questioins but hardly any answers. I'm looking forward to learning many new interesting things but also some new boring things. I believe I will find how and how not intriguing American lit can and can not be.

Story behind my topic choice

As a young high schooler, I have learned the English language is the hardest to learn. So this made me start thinking about how modern American literature was just a couple of yeas ago. It made all type of questions go through my head. So many like is everything still the same, who made the rule? How do you even come upnwith the rules and even how was it so many questions came about in my head. My head felt likeba train had hit me with all these questions and no answers. I also wondered when my great grandmother and grandfather were in high school did they have the same standards we have now, or is American literature changed over so many years.