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American Literature: What exactly is it made up of? ("Discovery"…

- - - - Christopher Columbus
        
        Columbus wrote a number of letters to the King and Queen, the motive behind this was to get more people to help him take over the land the Native Americans were residing on
        
        "The island and all the others are very fertile to a limitless degree, and this island is extremely so. In it there are many harbors on the coast of the sea, beyond comparison with the others which iI know in Christendom, and many rivers, good and large, which is marvelous" (48).
      - Theme of Homes Being Taken
        
        Blackhawk
        
        White settlers lied and manipulated Blackhawk and his people to
        get the land that they have been residing on
        
        By using the English language, settlers were able to twist around words to benefit themselves. A horrible tool of oppression
        
        Home can be defined in a number of ways: An environment that is safe, secure, surrounded by loved ones and where you belong
        
        The white settlers stole land for their own benefit. Without paying any mind to the lives they were destroying
- - - - The decay of the home paralleled with the decay of Roderick Usher and the Usher family line.
        
        Home is supposed to represent a safe space, but the Usher home is filled with unfamiliarity and morbidity
    - - Stories filled with psychological horror
- - - - "The Inventory"
        
        The reader follows the protagonist as she describes a sequence of her sexual adventures at the same time a life-threatening disease plagues throughout a country
        
        Depending on the reader, this can be a very controversial piece. The beauty lies within the rawness and the effect of human temptation.
    - - Opening Apathy By Warsan Shire
        
        So what are you gonna say at my funeral, now that you've killed me? Here lies the body of the love of my life, whose heart I broke without a gun to my head. Rest in peace, my true love, who I took for granted. Most bomb p*ssy who, because of me, sleep evaded. Her god listening. Her heaven will be a love without betrayal. Ashes to ashes, dust to side chicks.
      - Throughout this song, Beyonce powerfully breaks down gender norms as well as empowers all African American women to not hold the inequities of the past against their future selves
        
        Incidents from a Slave Girl By Harriet Jacobs
        
        In this piece, Harriet Jacobs writes a memoir of her life and the many traumatic experiences that she faced as an African- American slave woman
        
        Her audience is white women, Jacobs is aware that the societies of the two races are vastly different, but they share many of the same similarities
        
        Connecting this piece back to Beyonce's Sorry, Harriet Jacob's really embodied how difficult it really was to be an African-American woman. Beyonce is `further reiterating that the past cannot hold you from making the best of your future
- - - - "There are things in the wallpaper that no one sees but me" (652).
      - Not being able to live her life, her husband is controlling her.