Article: Literature

LITERATURE

LITERATURE This entry includes 5 subentries: Overview
African American Literature
Children's Literature
Native American Literature
Popular Literature

Overview

The first Europeans in America d id not encounter a silent world. A chorus of voices had been alive and moving through the air for approximately 25,000 years before. Weaving tales of tricksters, warriors and gods; spinning prayers, creation stories, and spiritual prophesies, the First Nations carved out their oral traditions long before colonial minds were fired and flummoxed by a world loud with language when Leif Ericsson first sighted Newfoundland in a.d. 1000. Gradually the stories that these first communities ...



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