What is the most American literatute? The works that most embody

>>8988163
>>8988163
>>8988163
I would also add Huckleberry Finn.

>>8988163
Anything by Toni Morrison

>>8988163
USA by Dos Passos

>>8988163
mcdonalds menu

great thread

>>8988407

Fucking Hell. I came here to say this. I'd say it's more like a McDonald's coupon though.

>>8988163
Fountainhead unfortunately.

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This.

>>8988163
Actually I think there's a strong argument for Walden as the perfect snapshot of the spirit which created America.

Tattoo by Earl Thompson. Not even joking.

Slouching Towards Bethlehem
The Crying of Lot 49
My Twisted World

Come to think of it, these may be more Californian than American. But since I've never lived any where else, its hard to say.

>>8988163
the Coca Cola logo

Naked Lunch

>>8988163
Faulkner anyone?
No southerners here?

Granted not many southerners have read him, but his portrait of the post-civil war south is pretty accurate

>>8991217
Not On the road?

Im not american so im genuinily interested about your point of view in that matter

>>8991777
That works too. They both offer a quintessentially American perspective, though Kerouac is more wide-eyed and excited, while Burroughs is cynical and bleaker. I happen to prefer Burrpughs, but if we had a metric to quantify American-ness, both works would be up there.

>>8989816
Transcedentalists are based. Whitman and Emerson are essential American writers too.

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>>8989719
>on your young shoulders rest the hopes of mankind
What a load of shit
I could never be a soldier
Why should I give a fuck about iraqis

You guys are slipping...

Moby Dick

>>8989805
second'd

>>8988163
J R
even though they are bongs I'd say mason and dixon
the sound and the fury

>>8992081
Sounds like we've got a commie fuck. You better not live in America, I'm coming for you.

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>>8991234
not many southerners have read him?

not many southerners have read AT ALL!

Tocqueville's Democracy in America