You have been asked to create an anthology of
colonial American literature. Would you include these texts? Why or
why not? What is your criteria for literature (or "literariness")?
What is your criteria for American?
Possible texts:
La
Florida
A
Key Into the Language
Eliot's
Bible
Wampum
The
Generall Historie (text)
Mary
Rowlandson's Captivity and Restoration
(text)
The
Day of Doom
Verses
Upon the Burning...
Satisfaction
in God