American Literature African Ritualistic Dances

 Reflects the perception of the Americans from

the first remarkable combination of idealisms
concerning with ideas and values.
 American literary writers like William Faulkner
and Eugene O’neil have seen as capable of
noble action only through agonizing struggle
 Between 1852 and 1855, an astonishing number
of important American writers and books
appeared. However, it was during the period of
the Renaissance when creativity in literary
works rose.
 It was during the 19th century after the World
War I when a whole generation of new literary
writers appeared. Earnest Hemingway, F. Scott
Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, and John
Steinbeck all published their first book between
1919 and 1929.
 In the 19th century, American literary writers
continue to produce literary works like poetry,
drama, novel, short stories that will take their
place among the other writers of the world.
American Literary Writers
Edgar Allan Poe
 Born on January 19, 1809, is the inventor of the
detective mystery stories. Poe was the first to
introduce a character that solved the mystery
by analyzing the facts of the case.
 He published some of his best-known stories
and poems, including “The Tell-Tale Heart,”
“Anabelle Lee,” “The Murders in the Rue
Morgue,” and “The Raven.”
Primitive African people love to perform ritualistic
dances. These dances are often witnessed in important
occasions like the following:
 events in the agricultural year
 rituals that mark rites of passage
 ceremonies of secret societies
 healing the sick
African contribution ranges from recordings to oral
traditions, which used to be in their aboriginal
languages but were translated to English and French.
Rene Maran
- Author of the novel, “Batouala”, was the first writer to
make Africa the subject of a noting literary work, and
his influence has been widespread.
Roland Tombekai Dempster (1910-1965)
- An African writer and literary figure. He was born in
Tosoh Grand Cape Mount Country in the Republic of
Liberia.
- He wrote The Mystic Reformation of Gondolia in
1953. On January 4, 1960, he wrote A song out of
Midnight: Souvenir of the Tubman-Tolbert
Inauguration.

Mark Twain
 Pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens,
American humorist, journalist, lecturer, and
novelist who acquired international fame for his
travel narratives, and for his adventure stories
of boyhood, especially The Adventures of Tom
Sawyer (1876) and Adventures of Huckleberry
Finn (1885).

African Literature

Characteristics of Traditional African Music

Polyrhythmic- African music featured complex,

interlocking, and contrasting rhythms that are achieved
by striking bells, clapping hands, beating drums, and
stomping feet.

Call and Response- This is the act of having a chorus

repeat a lead singer’s words in response.