| Outline of American Literature - Chapter I (5351 words) |
 | Indian oral tradition and its relation to American literature as a whole is one of the richest and least explored topics in American studies. |
| The early literature of exploration, made up of diaries, letters, travel journals, ships' logs, and reports to the explorers' financial backers -- European rulers or, in mercantile England and Holland, joint stock companies -- gradually was supplanted by records of the settled colonies. |
| As American minority literature continues to flower in the 20th century and American life becomes increasingly multicultural, scholars are rediscovering the importance of the continent's mixed ethnic heritage. |
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