American Ethnic Literature: Audre Lorde

Americans Literature has an immense amount if history with in it. There are many lessons that we have learned from reading and reviewing the history along with Americans Literature. There are many questions asking what is American Ethnic Literature, and this literature centers on the voices that govern out country. These voices work hard be heard, and will continue to struggle to be heard at all.

There is much importance that is carried with in the American ethnic literature. There is a legacy that is there in which we can still. American Ethnic literatures is the use of literature about racial groups that are socially different among those who live in the United Stated, most of the time the way people live in America are defined in the

The civil rights have made up of a large expansion from which literature came from. Audre Lorde had written many passages through her writing about her experiences with woman previously quieted or who were voiceless in literature. Audre Lorde was African American, she wanted t o give voice to the women in general who have tried to raise their own voices over men. She incorporated in her poetry “ a war against the tyrannies of silence, its not the difference that immobilizes us but silence.” She said this because she seen how there was always something in the way of African American women, through the violence and fear they carried; they were unable to speak their minds. In the time of slavery, these people would desire to be free; they wanted to live a free life but also had the fear of speaking out loud. Audre Lorde wanted to find her place in America, at the time of her existence she wanted to find her voice in life and open the

There was also an author by the name of Sherman Alexie he wrote about how there was much discrimination that was established within Native Americans. In his writing, he found a way to use some humor when speaking about stereotyping. Sherman seen that there was a lot of stereotypes with in the society, he had even wrote a story that was titles “Do Not Go Gentle”, this story pointed out the death will come to all no matter what race or skin type you where.

Ethnic writers focus on the disputes of parity in one-way or the other. Although there are many ethnic American writers, each writer represents a different gender in their community and culture. The Native Americans speak to the there culture, and do the Asian Americans. Having different background speak about their past and present living experiences can help people today to apprehend how things use to be. Through poems, tales and novels, we are able to recall the American literature that these authors have written