American fiction
Literature from USA
American fiction is literature—novels and short stories—written by American authors or set in America.
The term often appears in library classifications, bookstore sections, and course titles: She teaches American fiction from Hawthorne to Morrison.
More recently, it gained currency as a film title about a Black novelist frustrated by publishing's appetite for stereotypical narratives about African American life.
- Beat GenerationFifties literary counterculture movement
- TranscendentalismIntuition-based American idealist movement
- coming of ageReaching adult status
- Harlem RenaissanceBlack arts explosion, 1920s
- realismAccepting things as they are
Edgar Allan Poe · Ernest Hemingway · Zora Neale Hurston · F. Scott Fitzgerald · American Dream · satire · identity · melting pot · immigration · individualism · Toni Morrison · freedom · Philip Roth · William Faulkner · social justice · Postmodernism · unreliable narrator · Great Gatsby
- fictionnovel, novels, novella, novellas, short story
- literary criticismliterary theory, literary analysis, close reading, New Criticism, criticism
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