Where does the history of american literature start?

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Asked by Anonymous on 25th October, 2010 about Puritan Times period of American Literature - 1650-1750
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Modernist writers argue that American literaray tradition started with Walt Whitman. On the other hand, Rowlandson's "Captivity Narrative" was the first "bestseller"

Answered by Anonymous on 28th April, 2011
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In England, for we were loathe to write as Americans, even after we obtained our independence.

Answered by Anonymous on 17th June, 2011
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Our Am. Lit. seems to be borrowed--at first imitating the European writers and then Native American oral tradition

Answered by Anonymous on 25th September, 2011