Ameerika kirjandus alates I maailmasõjast kuni tänapäevani.
black familie, she was from the WASP familie. So they're all connected. The novel is filled
with allusions. One of the most important ones is the hints to Dreiser and his search for the
room. When he used to write he used to place a chair in the middle of the room, sit in and then
decied if it had proper position to find out if the time is right to start writing. Doctorow says
that americans are searching for a prooper alienment in the universe. The other important
figure is Robert Peary, and exeibitionist of the Antartict? He questions the quest of humans in
the universe. America is no longer seen as a melting pot but as a rainbow.
Late 1970's
Toni Morrison (1931-)
The five key periods of african american cultural history:
The first one is from the african past to the enslavement. 17-18 century
Reconstruction the period immediately after the civil war when slaves got their freedom but
they were sill not entirely equal