Critical American Literature

Like other national literatures, American literature was shaped by the history of the country that produced it. Boston in the 1630s, the high articulation of Puritan cultural ideals, and the early establishment of a college and a printing press in Cambridge, the New England colonies have often been regarded as the center of early American literature. One of the key developments in late-20th-century American literature was the rise to prominence of literature written by and about ethnic minoritie