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Early American and Colonial Period to 1776, American minority literature…
Early American and Colonial Period to 1776
Oral transmission of myths, legends, tales and lyrics.
No written literature before the first europeans
Amerindian stories refered to the nature
Nature: physical and spiritual mother
Equivalents to Old World spiritual narratives
Accounts of shamans' initiations and voyages
American Indian Literature
Almost every oral genre: lyrics, chants, myths, fairy tales, etc.
Repetitive and short poem-songs
Vision songs appearing in visions and dreams
The Literature of Exploration
First record of exploration in America
Scandinavian language
First known and sustained contact
Christopher Columbus
Columbus' journal (1493) recounts the trip's drama:
terror of men to monsters and fall off the edge of the world
Exploration of Roanoke
Recorded by Tomas Hariot "A Brief and True Report of the New-Found Land of Virginia
Jamestown colony's main records by Captain John Smith
Bartolomé de las Casas is the richest source of information about the contact between Amerindians and Europeans
He transcribed Columbus' journal "History of the Indians"
The Colonial period in New England
Intellectual Puritans
Self-educated to understand and execute God's will
Spiritual interpretation of things
Poetry: from complex metaphysical to homely journals
William Bradford
Elected governor of Plymouth in Massachusetts
Self-educated man, participation in the migration to Holland and in the Mayflower
He recorded the first document of colonial self.governance in the New World: The Maylower Compact
Declaration of Independence
Ann Bradstreet
First book of poems by an American
First woman writter
Long religious poems
American minority literature flowered in 20th century
Multicultural and mixed ethnic heritage