Premise: American literature is the literature written or produced in the area of the United States and its preceding colonies . To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by Harper Lee published in 1960 . As a Southern Gothic novel and a Bildungsroman , the primary themes of To Kill a Mockingbird involve racial injustice and the destruction of innocence .
Hypothesis: To Kill a Mockingbird is an unpublished short story.
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