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Contemporary U.S. Literature: Multicultural Perspectives
U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs, U.S. Society & Values Electronic Journal, February 2000. All of U.S. literature is multicultural, multiethnic, multiracial from precolonial days to the present. At one moment in history or another, one grouping may have defined multiculturalism, in that timeframe, such as the European cultures that flowed into the United States 100 years ago, and those of Asia and Latin America in the year 2000.
http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itsv/0200/ijse/toc.htm

Literature: Snapshots from the Bridge
U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs. U.S. Society & Values, April 2003. A new generation of highly ambitious writers, many with an international perspective, have arrived on the American literary scene.
http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itsv/0403/ijse/birkerts.htm

Outline of American Literature
U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs. An overview of the development of American literature, from pre-colonial times to the present.
http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/oal/oaltoc.htm

Selected American Authors Overview
American Resource Center, 1999. Provides short biographies of selected American authors.
http://usinfo.org/Litera_e.htm

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