Introduction When literature, art and culture live, the nation and the people, the whole of humanity lives in peace

Glossary
Lost Generation Date: 1920 - 1936
Areas Of Involvement: American literature
Related People: Ernest Hemingway F. Scott Fitzgerald Sherwood Anderson John Dos Passos E.E. Cummings
literary typical of the style of writing used in literature rather than in ordinary writing and talking
Eternal continuing for ever and having no end
Glorify to make someone or something seem more important or better than they really are
Spaniards (old-fashioned) someone from Spain
Realism The realism art movement of the nineteenth century was a dramatic shift from the exotic and poetic Romanticism that dominated the art world in the decades prior. Literary realism, in particular, introduced a new way of writing and a new generation of authors whose influence can still be seen in American literature and English literature to this day.
Naturalism was a literary movement taking place from 1865 to 1900 that used detailed realism to suggest that social conditions, heredity, and environment had inescapable force in shaping human character.
Sordidness involving immoral or dishonest behaviour
Abhorrence deep feeling of hatred towards something
Narrator , one who tells a story. In a work of fiction the narrator determines the story's point of view. If the narrator is a full participant in the story's action, the narrative is said to be in the first person.
Gambling when people risk money or possessions on the result of something which is not certain, such as a card game or a horse race
Migration The Great Migration was one of the largest movements of people in United States history. Approximately six million Black people moved from the American South to Northern, Midwestern, and Western states roughly from the 1910s until the 1970s.
Desegregation to eliminate segregation in specifically : to free of any law, provision, or practice requiring isolation of the members of a particular race in separate units.