She won two fellowships from the National Endowment for the arts, one was for fiction in 1982 and one was for poetry in 1987. During this time, she also met her literary agent, Susan Bergholz, who after seeing a small packet of short stories encouraged Cisneros to develop them into one what was to become Woman Hollering Creek. Cisneros won many awards for this including: the PEN Center West Award for Best Fiction of 1991, the Qualitiy Paperback Book Club New Voices Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the Lannan Foundation Literary Award, and was selected as a noteworthy book of the year by The New York Times and the American Library Journal. In 1995, Cisneros won the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. She moved to San Antonio where she has she is now lecturing to students at a local arts center.
Finally, her marriage to Curley provides the reader with an insight into the place of women in 1920s American society and their growing struggle to reconcile the American Dream of equality with the patriarchal values of the American Household. In the reader’s first encounter with Curley’s wife, Steinbeck presents her as a character who is certainly deserving of our condemnation. She is presented as the epitome of ‘femme fatale’ when she is described ‘She had full, rouged lips and wide spaced eyes, heavily made up. Her fingernails were red...she wore a cotton house dress and red mules, on the insteps of which were little bouquets of red ostrich feathers’. Steinbeck’s repeated use of the word red encourages us to condemn Curley’s wife as red is a colour associated with: danger, guilt, sacrifice, sin, passion and anger, often as connected with blood or sex.
Case Study: Immigrant Issues Case Study: Immigrant Issues As a social worker, your are expected to look at situations in three different prospective individual, systems and structural. In the case study of immigrant issues, a family in hopes of a bright new further in Canada gets hit with a stressful reality. Each individual in the family , all experienced their own difficulties of the life in Canad a.Mr. and Mrs Balbir Singh immigrated to Canada from their home land of northern India. They lived in Canada for six months and was able to move to Canada because Balbir's brother sponsored them.
Edna won an award for her book called The Harp-Weaver; the award was called Pulitzer Prize. Edna first major book of poetry was published in 1971 called Renascence. Then “A Few Figs from Thistle” was published in 1922 and got some people attention as well as controversy with its feminist learning (Modern American
Let me do a little bit to introduce those authors, Mr. Ernest Hemingway was an American author and journalist and his life of adventure influenced later generations. Miss Louise Erdrich is an American writer of novels, poetry, and children's books featuring Native American characters and settings. In the following paragraphs, I will examine each story and how setting, symbol and important ideas are used in each story.
An American Author: Zora Neale Hurston Zora Neale Hurston’s brought her culture to main stream America through her writing about her life and her African American culture. As a child she went through many things with her mother dying, her father beating her and treating her terrible, and being passed around her family from house to house. Some way some how she managed to make it through it all. Zora played a major part in the Harlem Renaissance and was an excellent novelist. That is why she has become a wonderful writer of today’s literature.
Suddenly Lee had a best seller. Fans wanted more but To Kill a Mockingbird was Lee’s only published novel. The last work under Lee’s name was an essay, over 20 years old now, that she read at the Alabama Heritage Festival in 1983. She has received many awards for her book. Bookstores say that High School and Middle School students account for most of the sales of the novel.
, powerful, passionate, these are just some of the words that describe Willa Cather. A Pulitzer Prize Winning author, whose works inspired many young authors. Though some may say her final works marked the decline of her artistic power, she is still a literature genius. She wrote of women’s struggles and frontier life in her novels: Lucy Gayheart, Sapphira the Slave Girl, and Shadows on the Rock. Willa Sibert Cather was born on December 7, 1817.
Therefore, this book was written as a fifty-year commemoration of the novel’s publication that comprises an assembly of essays that celebrate Lee’s enduring work. The essays are meant to show that Lee deserves more credit for her masterpiece that deals with the issues of the 1930s and helps readers to also assess their own social issues. Roman, James. Bigger than Blockbusters: Movies that defined America. California: ABC-CLIO, 2009 This book focuses on the American movies that have had profound influence on American culture and thought.
Joyce Carol Oates wrote more than fifty books with different variety of genres: fiction, nonfiction, short stories, novellas, dramas, essays and poetry. Oates became a respected essayist and literary critic whose nonfiction works are complemented for the logic and sensibility. She explores themes like race and violence, love and violence, cultural institutions with tragic elements, rural poverty, sexual abuse, class tensions, desire for power, female childhood, adolescence, and occasionally the supernatural. . Oates is mostly criticized on her violent writing style.