An important theme weaving through Native American literature is to respect and educate others about the Earth and its spirit. As an example we will review Joseph Brooke and pick up the poem "Sky Tree". In this article, the chief's wife felt this connection and responsibility with a natural mother, and when the tree of life collapsed, "There is no life without trees, I need to follow it," say. The world around us brings the theme in life, the whole oral tradition.
What is "America"? What is "literature"? Who is an American? Who decides? What is the role of literature in American identity formation? In this course, through the study of American colonies and American literature in 1861, Native American oral literature, Spanish, French, British colonial literature, Puritan and Southern colonial literature, American Revolutionary literature, and various I will learn about the events before the war. Works including novels and nonfiction. This course will explain a broad background on major literary developments and writers, as well as various initial early literary movements and underage writers affected. I will teach you to think carefully and critically about the aesthetic, social and political development that contributes to the formation of American literature.
From a socio-cultural point of view, we will consider literature from a perspective based on historical, political or gender. Historical criticism takes into account the rise of literature. Post colonial theory is a historical critique to examine the long-term influence of colonialism by studying former colonial literature. Marxist's criticism uses Marx's theory that literature is a product of social class. Marxian interpretation of John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath" highlights the exploitation of workers by agricultural capitalists. Gender Studies School thinks that some literature is the product of a deeply patriarchal system that studies sexual problems and marginalization of deprived groups
Post colonialism (or post colonial theory) may refer to a series of theories in philosophy and literature fighting colonial heritage. In this sense, colonial postwar literature can be regarded as part of postmodern literature, focusing on the political and cultural independence of previously conquered people in the colonial empire. Many practitioners have used Edward Said's "Orientalism" (1978) as the basis of the theory (although French theorists such as Eimede Saale and Franz Fannon made similar claims in decades before Saide ).