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Native Oral American Literature
American literature starts with the orally inherited myths and legends of the Indian cultures. Although they populated America for thousands of years, the native tribes never developed a written form for their hundreds of different languages and their literature remained an oral tradition.
Colonial Literature and the National Period Part 1
The settlers of the New World translated their unprecedented experiences into diaries and memoirs to keep an invaluable record of one of history’s most remarkable immigrations.