Ethnic Literature Unit I Quiz

"So, we should not judge religion and culture through what they do until we understand why they are doing. How do ethnographic writers define literature? This is a classic American literary classic How is it different? "American literature is based on the background of the author, ethnographic literature is different. "Traditional" American literature is influenced by American culture. Ethnographic literature is influenced by cultures outside the United States. Writer Mark Twain first thought that he was a talented American writer who wrote "Tom Sawyer's Adventure" and "Adventure of Huckleberry Finn". All of these novels are based on Twain's life story and setting and grew up in Hamilton, Missouri. Twain is based on these novels in American culture, if Twain establishes these novels in other countries, they will be regarded as domestic literature rather than 'traditional' literature.

In 1884, Mark Twain announced what could be said to be the most influential southern novel of the 19th century, "Adventure of Huckleberry Finn". Ernest Hemingway told the novel: "All literature in modern America comes from Mark Twain's book called Huckleberry Finn." Because of the frank relationship between novels and issues such as race and violence, this account is more relevant to the literature of the south apply. Kate Chopin is another central figure after the Civil War in North-South literature. Chopin concentrated his writing on the Arcadia / Kazan community in Louisiana and established her own literature in the collection of short stories "Hawaguchi Folklore" (1894) and "Akadi Night" (1897). Reputation These stories not only provide a sociological portrait of a particular Southern culture, but also provide the legacy of an American short story as a unique and complex narrative type uniquely. However, with her second and last novel, Awakening (1899) publication, she got different kinds of reputation.