An Overview of American Literature

Links to the website of the Norton Anthology of American Literature:

Before 1820:

(Overview)

 
Stories of the Beginning of the World
Native American Trickster Tales
Hannah Dustan
Christopher Columbus (1451-1506)
Álvar (o Álvaro) Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (c. 1490–1558)
Thomas Harriot (1560-1621)
Samuel De Champlain (c. 1570-1635)
Thomas Morton (c. 1579-1647)
John Smith (1580-1631)
William Bradford (1590-1657)
John Winthrop (1588-1649)
Roger Williams (c. 1603-1683)
Anne Bradstreet (c. 1612-1672)
Mary Rowlandson (c. 1636-1711)
Edward Taylor (c. 1642-1729)
Cotton Mather (1663-1728)
Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758)
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
Samson Occom (1723-1792)
J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur (1735-1813)
John Adams (1735-1826) and Abigail Adams (1744-1818)
Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
Olaudah Equiano (1745?-1797)
Judith Sargent Murray (1751-1820) and Hannah Webster Foster (1762-1837)
Phillis Wheatley (c. 1753-1784)
Royall Tyler (1757-1826)

A ver, ¿y Brockden Brown? ¿No es más importante que Samson Occom? Hasta William Hill Brown, si nos ponemos.


1820-1865:

(Overview)

Washington Irving (1783-1859)
James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)
Catherine Maria Sedgwick (1789–1851)
William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)
William Apess (1798-1839)
Lydia Maria Child (1802–1880)
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Margaret Fuller (1810-1850)
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)
Fanny Fern (1811–1872) and Elizabeth Drew Stoddard (1823–1902)
Harriet Jacobs (c. 1813-1897)
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)
Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
Herman Melville (1819-1891)
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

—¿Y William Prescott? Ah, que eso ya no  es literatura.


1865-1914:

(Overview)

Native American Chants and Songs
Charlot (c. 1831-1900)
Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) (1835-1910)
Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton (1835-1895)
William Dean Howells (1837-1920)
Constance Fenimore Woolson ( 1840-1894)
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?)
Sarah Winnemucca (1844-1891) and Zitkala Sa (1876-1938)
Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909)
Kate Chopin (1850-1904)
Booker T. Washington (1856?-1915)
Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) and Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945)
Bret Harte (1836-1902) and Mary Austin (1868-1934)
W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963)
James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) and Paul Lawrence Dunbar (1872-1906)
Jack London (1876-1916)

Es una selección curiosa, esta que incluye a Sara Winnemucca y Zitkala Sa pero no a Stephen Crane. Habrá que completarla. O reducirla, si no.

1914-1945:

(Overview)

Black Elk (1863-1950)
Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935)
Willa Cather (1873-1947)
Amy Lowell (1874-1925)
Robert Frost (1874-1963)
Susan Glaspell (1876-1882)
Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)
William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)
H. D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886-1961)
Marianne Moore (1887-1972)
T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)
Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953)
Raymond Chandler (1888-1965)
Claude McKay (1889-1948)
Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980)
Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)
Nella Larsen (1891-1964)
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)
E. E. Cummings (1894-1962)
Jean Toomer (1894-1967)
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
William Faulkner (1897-1962)
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
Hart Crane (1899-1932)
Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938) and Richard Wright (1908-1960)
Sterling Brown (1901-1989) and Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
Carlos Bulosan (b. 1911)

Curioso que no aparezca Vladimir Nabokov, tan estadounidense al menos como Black Elk, y más literato. Debe ser por lo de mudarse a Suiza, a donde no fue Black Elk.

American literature from 1945

(Overview)

Prose 1945-

Eudora Welty (b. 1909)
Tennessee Williams (1911-1983)
John Cheever (1912-1982)
Ralph Ellison (1914-1994)
Saul Bellow (b. 1915)
Grace Paley (b. 1922)
Jack Kerouac (1922-1969)
James Baldwin (1924-1987)
Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)
Ursula K. Le Guin (b. 1929)
Donald Barthelme (b. 1931)
Toni Morrison (b. 1931)
John Updike (b. 1932)
Thomas Pynchon (b. 1937)
Raymond Carver (b. 1938)
Toni Cade Bambara (1939-1995)
Maxine Hong Kingston (b. 1940)
Gloria Anzaldúa (b. 1942)
Alice Walker (b. 1944)
Annie Dillard (b. 1945)
David Mamet (b. 1947) and Sam Shepard (b. 1943)
Leslie Marmon Silko (b. 1948)
Art Spiegelman (b. 1948)
Louise Erdrich (b. 1954) and Sherman Alexie (b. 1966)
Richard Powers (b. 1957)
Jhumpa Lahiri (b. 1967)


Curioso, también, que no aparezca Philip Roth, ni Jerzy Kosinski, ni Paul Auster...  En fin, selecciones del Reader's Digest, que es lo que es la literatura.


Poetry 1945-

Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989)
Theodore Roethke (1908-1963)
Charles Olson (1910-1970)
Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)
Robert Hayden (1913-1980)
Randall Jarrell (1914-1965)
John Berryman (1914-1972)
Robert Lowell (1917-1977)
Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)
Denise Levertov (1923-1997)
A. R. Ammons (1926-2001)
James Merrill (1926-1995)
Robert Creeley (b. 1926)
Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997)
Galway Kinnell (b. 1927)
John Ashbery (b. 1927)
Anne Sexton (1928-1974)
Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
Gary Snyder (b. 1930)
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
Michael S. Harper (b. 1938)
Simon J. Ortiz (b. 1941)
Billy Collins (b. 1941)
Louise Glück (b. 1943) and Cathy Song (b. 1955)
Joy Harjo (b. 1951)
Rita Dove (b. 1952)
Li-Young Lee (b. 1957)

Me podían haber puesto a David Foster Wallace, o a Danielewski, o a alguno de estos jóvenes genios à la mode, Jonathan Franzen, o Foer. O a Stephen King o George R. R. Martin, por qué no, que la gente los lee más que a Li-Young Lee. Cada cual pone a quien estima oportuno.

American Passages