美國歷史中有那些社會衝突？有那些文學作品可以印證？

Question

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Name some conflicts in American society and use some literary works as examples
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請問是否有關於Jewish immigrant life
Indians' being prostituted
及assimilation的文學作品呢？

Answer 1

南北戰爭當然是很重要的衝突不過導火線的種族問題可一直到現在都是存在的喔有關種族問題的作品實在太多了, 白黑的,紅黑的都是問題以下根據年代由早期到近期而排列Cooper's The Last of the Mohican (French and Indian war) Thoreau's Slavery in Massachusetts (Anti-Slavery)Thoreau's Civil Disobedience (Anti-slavery and Mexican War) Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Pap on abolishist)Hamlin Garland's Under the Lion's Paw (On land problem) Charles W. Chestnutt's The Marrow of Tradition (White and Black) John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath (Dust Bowl, economy problem) Faulkner's Light in August (Black and White)Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (The Jazz Age)Hemingway's The Sun also Rises (influence of the two wars)MacKay's Poem: Lynch (White vs. Black)Richard Wright's Native Son, (Black and White)Ellison's The Invisible Man (Black and White) Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire (Old and new--the aristocrat vs. the new one from industrialization)Alice Walker's The Color Purple (Black and White, but focuses more on Black)Toni Morrison's  Beloved (Black during and after the emacipation )Linda Hogan's Solar storms 以上謹供參考

Answer 2

Little Women（小婦人），時代背景就是美國的南北戰爭。
另外Gone with the wind（港譯：亂世佳人），時代背景都是美國南北戰爭。