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¡ñ Early
Fiction
¡ñ Transcendentalists
¡ñ Power
of Imagination
¡ñ New
Visions of America
¡ñ Reform
and Liberation
¡ñ Regionalism
¡ñ A
New Wave
¡ñ Sympathetic
Views
¡ñ Rebellious Spirit
¡ñ The
Modernists
¡ñ The Lost Generation
¡ñ Harlem Renaissance
¡ñ New
Drama
¡ñ Depression,
Realism and Escapism
¡ñ Postwar Voices
and the "Beat Generation"
¡ñ New American
Voices
Sympathetic Views
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Kate Chopin
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other women, in different parts of the country, were also writing
sympathetic psychological studies. Though influenced by regionalism,
they didn't emphasize setting so much as they did their characters,
individuals who often felt out of place in their environments. Kate
Chopin's The Awakening (1899) is set in the heart
of the South, in New Orleans; Willa
Cather's O Pioneers! (1913) depicts
life on the sweeping plains of midwestern Nebraska. Cather went
on to write several novels and establish herself as a major American
writer,but Chopin stopped writing after her book was condemned
by literary critics.
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Cather's Birthplace
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W.E.B.Du Bois
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American
literature entered the 20th century not as optimistic or patriotic
as it had been a century earlier, yet full of democratic spirit.
There were some voices still to be heard, however. Black Americans
were just beginning to make their mark in literature in
the wake of the Civil War's having freed them from slavery.
In 1903, W.
E. B. Du Bois (1869-1963) published Souls of Black
Folk, a series of sketches
of the common lives of his people which was the first glimpse
many white Americans had had of the social condition of blacks since
slavery.
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