1. Native Americans
1.1. Definitions
1.1.1. Oral literature: orally transmitted myths, legends, tales and song lyrics.
1.2. Characteristics
1.2.1. - They were orally transmitted
1.2.2. - Reverence to nature & physical mother
1.3. Examples
1.3.1. - Lyrics, chants, myths, fairy tales, humorous anecdotes, incantations, riddles, proverbs, epics, and legendary histories.
1.3.2. The tale of Manabozho, the hero (trickster) from the Ojibwa tribe.
2. Colonialism
2.1. Definitions
2.1.1. - Puritan definition of good writing: bringing home awareness and importance of God’s will
2.2. Characteristics
2.2.1. - Very academic (religious) - First written texts - Citing of the Bible - New England as a host of new types of texts - identity - Southern Colonies - trend of “the gentleman”
2.3. Examples
2.3.1. - Complex metaphysical poetry to homely journals - Bradford records first document of colonial self-governance - Anne Bradstreet, woman who publishes first American book (poetry) - Political theory by Samual Sewall