Comparison Between The Book of Negroes and The Color Purple The Book of Negroes is a novel about a woman named Aminata Diallo and her journey to freedom. She is brought to America via the slave trade and uses her midwifery, reading and writing skills to help cope with her situation and gain freedom. The story is told from the point of view of Aminata Diallo in her later years. She looks back at her journey to freedom and the people whom she loved and lost along the way. The book deals with various themes such as discrimination, separation, slavery, oppression and survival.
Angelina Grimke was a playwright and a poet who produced her finest work—personal lyrics—during the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. Grimke, born in 1880, came from an intellectual background. Her father was an African American lawyer, writer, and publisher who championed black rights and served as vice-president of the NAACP. Her mother was white and also a writer, but she abandoned the family in the late 1880s. Grimke attended prestigious liberal schools.
Famous Feminists Adams, Abigail (1744-1818). Adams was a prolific writer, patriot, abolitionist, and early feminist. In her famous correspondence to her husband, she spoke eloquently against slavery, many years before the abolitionist movement, and on behalf of women. Anthony, Susan B. 1820-1906.
The autobiography is now frequently read as a complement to non fictional works that delve into the subject of racism. The autobiography tells that the strength of character and a love of literature helped Maya Angelou overcoming racism and trauma. The autobiography begins with three years old Maya and her older brother Bailey, they both are sent to Stamps, Arkansas, to live with their grandmother and ends when Maya becomes a mother at the age of 16. Angelou was challenged by her friend, author James Baldwin, and her editor, Robert Loomis, to write an autobiography that was also a piece of literature. Reviewers often categorize I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings as autobiographical fiction because Angelou uses thematic development and other techniques common to fiction, but some critical view
This play is about a young black woman who is so lost in the myths of the black and white race that she feels vulnerable and without any identity. She cites Tennessee Williams and Edward Albee and her time at the Circle in the Square theatre as major influences of her work. In 1962 she joined Edward Albee's Playwrights' Workshop beginning over a thirty year career in theatre which continues to this day. Kennedy has been a lecturer at Yale and the University of California at Berkeley, and has taught playwrighting at Princeton and Brown. She has received Guggenheim Fellowships, NEA, Rockefeller Foundation Grants, and in 1992, the mayor of Cleveland declared March 7 to be Adrienne Kennedy
Sharon Olds’ Poetry Explained Sharon Olds was born in 1942 in San Francisco and received education from Stanford and Columbia University. She married a man in the late 1960s and is the mother of a son and daughter. That marriage eventually ended and the painful breakup has influenced her poetry heavily. Olds writes continuously, and only after an extensive amount of time has passed she feels the need to put together poems that comprise a book. She is one of a few poets in the United States whose books of poetry sell in large quantities.
Elizabeth Beth Henley is female American dramatist and actress. She is well known for her "Southern-accented" work that primarily deals with women’s issues and family relations. Henley does a great job of combining comedy with the seriousness in her work. Elizabeth was born on May 8, 1952 in Jackson Mississippi and grew up there until she began her professional career as an actress and a playwright at Theatre Three in Dallas,Texas. One of her first plays,"Am I Blue," a one-act play was written while at Southern Methodist University in 1973.
My Analysis “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker An accomplished author, Alice Walker is well known for her literary works concerning race and gender in American culture. She is most renowned for her 1983 novel, The Color Purple for which she won the coveted Pulitzer Prize. Walker published Everyday Use in 1973, with the story first appearing in the well-known Harpers magazine. Everyday Use is about a long awaited visit from “Dee” to her Mother and Sister who live far from the city in the rural countryside of south. Dee is attractive, stylish, & well educated – with some apparently portrayed traits of selfishness, brashness and excessive confidence.
Nicole Lee English 1302 Dr. Williams April 13, 2012 Annotated Bibliography Chopin, Kate. “The Storm” Literature an Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing 11th Edition X.J Kennedy Dana Gioia 2010,2007 &2005. American author Kate Chopin (1850–1904) wrote two published novels and about a hundred short stories in the 1890s. Most of her fiction is set in Louisiana and most of her best-known work focuses on the lives of sensitive, intelligent women .Kate Chopin used her great writing abilities to help the readers understand and empathize with the characters in her stories. While reading this story I could truly relate to the characters.
This accident caused Alice to transform from the happy, self-confident eight year old she was into an isolated depressed adolescent who retreated into reading stories and writing poems as an outlet. This escape made Walker more conscience of other people and their feelings, and she rose from the despair that her disability caused her to become a leader and the valedictorian of her high school class. (African-American Writers: A Dictionary) Overcoming the isolation caused by her disability and the civil rights era gave Walker a perfect recipe for an in-depth novel about the alienation of a black woman in the beginning of the century. Celie is introduced to us as a victim of abuse, from the very first letter she writes. Celie’s only form of communication with the outside world is her