LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 13:3 March 2013
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
         A. R. Fatihi, Ph.D.
         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
Assistant Managing Editor: Swarna Thirumalai, M.A.

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Quest of Augie in Saul Bellow’s The Adventures of Augie March

A. Rajeswari M.A., M.Phil.

The United States of America is uniquely a country of immigrants, a civilization made up of people whose cultural origins are in other societies with their own languages, religious customs and fundamental values. Although in the seventeenth century the new Americans were largely Northern Europeans, by 1900 people from every society on earth had come to the New World. It is this diversity that makes America what it is and at the same time, creates the challenges it faces. New York City had newspaper in over a hundred languages, reflecting the diverse influx of new citizens.

The term ‘melting pot’ is a metaphor for a heterogeneous society becoming more homogeneous, the different elements melting together into a harmonious whole with a common culture. It is a metaphor for the idealized process of immigration and colonization by which different nationalities, cultures and race are blend into a new, virtuous community. America is called ‘melting pot’ because there are people from all over the world having different cultures, different customs come and assimilate into the American soil. American Literature is the literary work produced in the area of the United States and its preceding colonies. During its early history, America was a series of British colonies on the east of the present day United States. Therefore, its literary tradition begins as linked to the broader tradition of English Literature. American Literature begins with the orally transmitted myths, legends, tales and lyrics of Native American cultures.

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A. Rajeswari, M.A., M.Phil.
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S.F.R College for Women
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Tamilnadu
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