𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒔 - 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑨𝒓𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑫𝒖𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒐𝒏: 𝑻𝒐𝒏𝒊 𝑴𝒐𝒓𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒐𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 13𝒕𝒉 𝑨𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕

The Omelas basement has a physical address in America.
We use Toni Morrison's book 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘢𝘳𝘬 to interrogate the 13th Amendment and the 'Hideous Bargain" of mass incarceration.

https://waywordsstudio.com/podcasts/waywords_podcast/morrison-and-the-13th-amendment/

#podcast #literature #books 13th #avaduvernay #tonimorrison #playinginthedark #recitatif #13thism #americanlit

This summer on the beach I'll be returning to my great literary love, #HermanMelville 🏖️

#mastobooks #reading #americanlit

Here's why I love American Literature 😅🐳💚

https://mastodon.social/@existentialcomics/114796817465465280

#mobydick #americanlit #americanliterature #meme

A character in #TotallyKiller says someone "must have hidden it." For me, I don't have any inclination towards "have hidden" nor "have hid" as past participles. Apparently, the use of the former became much more common starting around the time I was born, at least in #Americanliterature (https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=have+hid%2Chave+hidden&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=en-US-2019&smoothing=3), which may explain it.

#horror #Americanlit #linguistics #languagechange #morphology

Spotted in #FantasticFour c1966: "brag of" rather than "brag about". Apparently this was rare in American #literature even by the 60s (https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=brag+of%2Cbrag+about&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=en-US-2019&smoothing=3#).

#Marvel #comics #Fantastic4 #FF #linguistics #syntax #languagechange #Americanlit #Americanliterature

I only had four students in my American lit class this semester, but they were the best! They asked if their final assignment could be an analysis of a modern character, so Garfield, Rambo, Freddy Fazbear, and Yoda get put under the microscope on Wednesday...

#CulturalStudies #AmericanLit

Some books I’m excited to read this year. 😍📚 What’s on your TBR?

#AmReading #Bookstodon #CanLit #Poetry #NonFiction #CNF #Horror #Fiction #SFF #Memoir #AfricanLit #AmericanLit #DiverseLit #BlackLit #BlackWriters #BlackBooks #BlackMastodon