American Literature is a tutorial for the students of specialties: 60111800 - Foreign language and literature (English), 60230100 - Philology and teaching languages (English) and 60230200 - Theory and practice of translation (English). In this tutorial the author has tried to be responsive to the immense changes that have occurred over the past 20 years in the study of American literature. In particular, the author has tried to register the plurality of American culture and American writing: the continued inventing of communities, and the sustained imagining of nations, that constitute the literary history of the United States.