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While writers like wordsworth and coleridge emerged as famous writers during the romantic period in england, america also had an abundance of great new literature. University of chicagos kenneth warren asked, what was african american literature. Precisely speaking of american literature, one can say that american literature is literature in english produced in what is now the united states of america. So powerful was its effect on the american imagination, so evocative its use of the forces of nature in its plots, so charming its invitation to children of all ages to look for the element of wonder in the world around them that author l. Her unrepentant belief in strong feeling as the heartbeat of any political approach to the world explains why, though many good histories of american communism have appeared since romance, none have captured, elevated, and lit up the experience in quite the same way. Best african literature top 10 must read books afrikanza.
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These fundamental ideals are still evident today as america launches into the 21st century. Our topic is african american literature, the subject of many of your books and much of your career. In the us, modern romance genre fiction was born in 1972, with avons publication of kathleen woodiwisss the flame and the flower, which was the first of the modern bodice ripper romance novels to follow the principals into the bedroom. Actually, some americans have always conceded that the great american. Continuing our essential reading series this year, were focusing on romance novels, from the classics to the.
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