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American Canons and Postmodern Viewpoint

This essay attempts to re-examine some of American canons from postmodern viewpoint and, thereby, question their pre-established interpretations. In so doing. I aim to show how postmodern viewpoint can help us interrogate American canons from multiple points of view. For this purpose I analyse William Bradford’s History Of Plymouth Plantation. Benjamin Franklin’s The Autobiography Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “The American Scholar” and Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself.” The re-investigation of those canons in this essay ultimately shows us the hidden aspects of Puritanism. American Dream. American Individualism and Democracy.