Tender Is the Night and The Disillusionment in the American
Whether there is an American novel literature or not, is no longer in doubt. Even before 1776, a great number of people were writing in the American colonies, and sometimes specifically about America, out of close knowledge and involvement.
After the war of independence , they were Americans in a more precise sense: citizens of a nation whose new sovereignty was internationally recognized. When though would be a genuine fully fledged literature of America?
The united states was culturally an offshoot of Europe. The colonists were Europeans, together with Africans or ‘involuntary’ immigrants, brought by slave trade.