Question: The diversity of American culture creates enormous richness and vitality in American Literature. This is especially true in the contemporary period. How do the writers in this module (as well as previous modules) cross boundaries and reach different communities of readers? In trying to include more voices, how do these writers avoid fragmentation? * Modules Walt Whitman & Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Kate Chopin & Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Booker T. Washington & W.E.B DuBois, Jack London & Zitkala-Sa, John Steinbeck & Ernest Hemingway, Jack Kerouac & James Baldwin. Reference: The Norton Anthology American Literature 1865 to the Present.