O prejudecata stupida: "literatura americana? de rahat..ce dracu se pricep astia la arta?"
Niste nume de autori (ignorarea lor, convingerea ca nu reprezinta o literatura este sinonima cu prostia)
sec XVIII
- Fenimore Cooper, Washington Irving
sec XIX
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Longfellow, Edgar Allan Poe, Richard Henry Dana, Thoreau, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson,
Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, Henry James
- Theodore Dreiser, Robert Frost, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Jack London, Upton Sinclair, Carl Sandburg, Ezra Pound, Eugene O'Neill, Raymond Chandler, T. S. Eliot, Henry Miller, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Steinbeck,
Cei contemporani : Bellow, Vonnegut, Nabokov, Tennessee Williams, Burroughs, Arthur Miller, Bradbury, Asimov, Clarke, Kerouac, Doctorow, Roth etc.
M-am rezumat doar la cei cititi de mine si/sau la cei mai cunoscuti.
http://www.shsu.edu/~eng_wpf/amlitchron_index2.html