Brown, WW (English spelling) BrownWW

Japanese: Brown,W.W.(英語表記)BrownWW
Brown, WW (English spelling) BrownWW

...The content that can be encompassed under the broad concept of black literature is broad and complex, and apart from such sociological divisions, questions are constantly raised, such as whether a term such as "American black literature" is even meaningful, and whether it is correct from the standpoint of literary criticism to establish the genre of "black literature" in the first place.
[In the United States of America]
The origins of African-American literature date back to a few poems in the mid-18th century, but the first novel was William Wells Brown's Clotel, the President's Daughter (1853). In the 20th century, a small number of professional writers emerged, but in the 1920s, a vigorous literary movement called the Negro Renaissance (Harlem Renaissance) began, centered in Harlem, New York, and this momentum became the basis for the state of affairs after World War II.

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Japanese:

…黒人文学というおおまかな概念に包括されうるものの内容は,広範かつ複雑であり,またこうした社会学的な区分けとは別に,例えば〈アメリカ黒人文学〉というような呼称がはたして意味があるのか,そもそも〈黒人文学〉というジャンルを措定することが文学批評の立場から考えて正しいものかどうか,といった疑問がたえず提起されている。
[アメリカ合衆国の場合]
 アメリカ黒人の文学の発祥は18世紀半ばの少数の詩作品にまでさかのぼるが,最初の小説はブラウンWilliam Wells Brownの《クローテル――大統領の娘》(1853)である。20世紀に入って職業作家の出現が少数ながら見られたが,1920年代にはニューヨークのハーレムを中心に,〈ニグロ・ルネサンス(ハーレム・ルネサンス)〉と呼ばれる活発な文芸活動が始まり,この勢いは第2次大戦後の状態の基礎になった。…

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