United States of America
What does it mean to be an American and what does freedom mean in America? Our course has covered a variety of texts from several different periods of American Literature. Each has articulated different and at times competing definitions of America and of what it means to be an American and what freedom means in the United States. The topic of America and the definition of freedom is very general, so feel free to approach this subject from whatever angle you wish. You may be more interested in studying a theme that does not have much to do with the topic of America. Whatever topic or theme you choose to write upon, be sure to make a conscious effort to at least connect it to the more general question: What is America and its view of freedom (or what is an American)?
